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The siiriiaiik' >iiiiinian In dc-
SIIII'MAX rivc<l l'n>m a trade iiainc.
sliiimian l)cins equivalent to
sailor. Sliiptoii, as the name of the Ameri-
can iminii,'rant was spelled on the early rec-
ords, is a |)lace name, anil the coat-of-arms
of the English family of Shipton is descrihed :
Arfjent three pairs uf bellow- salile two and
one. rile .SliiptiMi crest: .\n eel naiant i)ropcr.
Hilt Shi|)ton is prohahly not the correct si)cll-
iiifj. Shipman was an ancient Knglish sur-
name and several branches of the family bear
coats-of-arms. The Shipman ( or Shiphan )
family of Welby, county Hereford, had these
arms f,'rantcd in 1581 : Or a cinqucfoil between
three crosses crosslet gules, and their crest
is : .\ demi-ostricli. wins^s expanded arjjent,
dncally gorged and beaked or. holding in the
beak a key azure and vnlned on the breast
gules. The Shipman family of Sarington.
county Notts, bear: Gules on a bend argent
between three estoilles or three pellets. Crest :
A leopard, sejent argent spotted sable, re-
posing the de.xter |iaw on a ship's rudder az-
ure. The .Shipman family of county Kent
bear: Argent a bend between six suns gules.
The Shipman family of New Jersey claim
descent from Harmon Shipman, born in Ger-
many, in I" 1 7, came to .\merica in 1740, set-
tled in Harmony, New Jersey, and Union-
town. Warren county. There is a tradition
that the New Jersey family is related to the
Connecticut Shipmans, and the personal names
in the two families ar^ similar, but if the
German origin of the New Jersey family is
correctly given in the family history, there
could be no relation traceable. The Connecti-
cut immigrant was an Englishman.
(T) Edward Shipman. the immigrant an-
cestor, is said to have come from England,
sailing from Hull in \C\7,'). with George Fen-
wick, but if this is correct he must have been
a young child. A William Shipman, aged
twenty-two. sailed ^^ay j8. 1635. for X'irginia.
His relation to Edward is not known. Ed-
ward Shipman's name was spelled Shipton in
the early records of Sayhrook. Connecticut,
where he first settled, but later the name is
spelled Shipman and all the t.iimly follow
that si)elling. Etlward married (first), Jan-
uary 16. 1O51, Elizabeth Comstock. who diec
about the middle of July, 1(159. He marriec
(second), July i. iN).^, Mary Andrews. H«
was admitted a freeman in October, 1667. H<
liied Sei>teiiiber 15. H197. In the will of tlu
sachem L'ncas, I'ebniary jij. 1(176, .Shipmar
was one of the three legatees to whom he gav(
three thousand acres of land within sight ol
Hartford. Children of first wife: ICIizabeth
born May. Ki.SJ, married, December, 1672
John Hobson : Edward, Ixjrn February. 1654
William, June, 1656. ( hildren of second wife'
John, mentioned below: Hannah. l)orn Febru
ary. ifV)6: Samuel. December 2^. i(>()S: .\bi-
gail. September. 1670: Jonathan, September
1674.
ni) John, son of Edward Shipman, wai
born in Saybrook. .\pril 5. U)64 : married
May 5. 1686. Martha Humphries. Children
born at Saybmok : John, born January 6. 1687
mentinned below; Jonathan, twin of John
David, born -August 9. i(5i)2: .\braham, De
cember 31, 1695. married Ruth Hutler ; Mar
tha. .\pril 6. 1(399: Hannah, .\pril 25, 1702. '
(III) John (2), son of John (il Ship
man. was born at Saybrook. January 6. 1687
and died there July 7. 1742. He married
January 11. 1713. Elizabeth Kirtland. .-'
manuscript letter in the Hinmans manuscript
of Boston states that John came from Eng
land with Fenwick. evidently an error, fo;
the grandfather of John was the immigrant
Thi> manuscript stales that John marriec
Willis. The children according to thi
pajicr were: John, of Saybrook: Elias. settle
in Killingworth and New Haven; Nathanitl
mentioned below; Samuel, Iwrn May 21, 1721
died September 4, 1801, married (first) Sara!
Doty, (.second). January 10, 1754. Hannal
r.uslmell : Elizabeth, married Hush
nell.
(IN) Nathaniel, son of John (2) Shipman
was born about 1720-25, in Saybn'wjk. He re
moved from Sayhrook to Norwich. Conilecti
cut. about 1750. He was chosen elder of thi
Sixth or Chelsea (now Second) church a
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602
CONNECTICUT
Norwich, IJeccinlier 30, 1763. He was a
founder of this church and one of the leading
citizens of Norwich. ?Ie married (first) at
Norwich, in 1747, Ruth Reynolds, born 1727-
28, died 1755; married (second), July 18,
1756, Elizabeth Leffingwell, born at Norwich,
January 4, 1729-30, died there June 8. iSoi,
daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Lord)
Leffingwell (see Leffingwell I\'). Children
of first wife: I. Lucretia, married Rev. Sam-
uel Hall, of Sag Harbor. 2. Betsey, married
Andrew Frank; removed to Canaan. Chil-
dren of second wife : 3. Lizzie, born at Nor-
wich. September 11, 1757; died April 8. 1834;
married. December 16, 1786. Peabody Clem-
ent, of Norwich. 4. Nathaniel, born May 17,
1764, mentioned below. 5. Lydia, born Octo-
ber II, 1766; married (first) Asa Spaulding,
born 1757, graluate of Yale, 1778; married
(second) Bela Peck. 6. Oliver Leffingwell,
born 1773, died 1775.
(\') Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (i)
Shipman, was born in Norwich, May 17, 1764,
and died there July 14, 1853. Early in life
he learned the trade of goldsmith, and he be-
came a man of large influence and importance
in the community. A natural leader of men,
he was oftener than any of his contempora-
ries called to preside over public gatherings
and town meetings. He represented Norwich
for many years in the general assembly : was
judge of probate and county judge. He set-
tled many estates and transacted much legal
business for his neighbors. IMiss F. M. Caul-
kins, the historian of Norwich and New Lon-
don, thus wrote of Judge Shipman :
"Judge Shipman was a man of great simplicity of
fiabits, of vigorous common sense, upriglit, honorable
and independent, both in his inward promptings and
in bis whole course of action. He was almost al-
ways in office, serving the town and state in a va-
riety of ways — municipal, legislative and judicial —
displaying more than common ability, and giving gen-
eral satisfaction in all three departments. Affability
and a taste for social enjoyment made him a de-
liebtful companion. His readiness to communicate
bis vivid appreciation of character, his richly stored
memory, and his abundant flow- of traditionary and
historic anecdote held the listening ear bound to his
voice as by an invisible charm. A sentiment of
eratitnde leads me to speak of another trait — bis
kindness and winning attentions to the young. He
w-as indulgent of their presence, of their vivacity and
their snorts; was ready to gratify them with some
f"le of the olden time; to make them happy with
little gifts of flowers or fruit; to compliment their
self-respect by asking them to read to him or lead-
ing them to converse on subjects rather above
tb-'n below: their standing. This is a rare character-
istic in this hi'rrying, impetuous age. Pleasant are
p11 the memories '■onnccted with this honored and
eyemphry .son of Norwich."
He married Abigail, daughter of Judge Ben-
jamin and Mary (Boardman) Coit, October
II, 1794: she died July 31, 1800. Children:
Lydia Leffingwell, born December, 1795, died
January 18, 1851, unmarried: Thomas Leffing-
well, mentioned below.
(\T) Rev. Thomas Leffingwell Shipman,
son of Judge Nathaniel Shipman, was born
in Norwich, August 28. 1798. He attended
the public schools and entered Yale College,
where he was graduated in the class of 1818,
then went to the Andover Theological Semi-
nary from which he graduated in 1821, and
immediatelv afterward entered upon his life
work as a Christian minister. He had been se-
lected, during the summer, one of six grad-
uates to be employed in missionary labor un-
der the auspices of the South Carolina Hoine
Missionary Society, and he sailed for Charles-
ton in October, 1821. He entered upon his
work with zeal and enthusiasm ; and was in
this section for soine months, ministering in
various parishes, but chiefly at a rural parish
known as Stony Creek. Returning to Ando-
ver, Mr. Shipinan continued his studies until
November, when he was engaged to supply the
pulpit of the Congregational Society at Leb-
anon, Connecticut. There his earnest labors
in the parish brought an accession of thirty
members in a brief period. In March fol-
lowing he filled the pulpit for a few weeks in
a newly organized parish at Brooklyn, New
York. He went thence to Brooklyn, Connecti-
cut, then to Vernon, and later to Hartford,
where he acted as supply in the South Church.
Through the winter he preached in various
towns in Connecticut, and in April, 1824, was
tendered a unanimous call to the First Congre-
gational Church in Lebanon, but on account
of his vouth and inexperience he declined the
opportunity. Shortly afterward he received
a commission froin the United Domestic So-
ciety of New York, the predecessor of the
American Home iNIissionary Society, and went
to Huron county, Ohio, a pioneer minister in
that field, and remained a year, "sowing seed
in new ground." In 1825, for seven months,
he preached to a small congregation in Nor-
wich Falls, Connecticut, and then was or-
dained and installed as pastor of the First
Church of Southbury, Connecticut. Here he
staved for the next ten years and under liis
earnest and zealous pastorate the church was
greatly enlarged and strengthened. Pastor
and congregation had a strong mutual affec-
tion, and it was with much regret on both
sir'es that illness in his family caused him to
resign. After brief periods of labor in vari-
ous places he began in 1837 to fill the pulpit
of the Congregational Church at Bozrah, Con-
necticut, and continued for four years. In
May. 1S42. he was called to the church at:
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603
Jcvvctt city. Connecticut, and after a year lic-
caine the setlle<l jja-'tur there, ren)ainin)^ fur
eleven years, wlien he a.--ke<l for disnu^sal on
account of a shattered nervou> system de-
manding rest. He continued to live at Jeweit
City and never accepted another cliarge, hut
supplied the pulpits from time to time, in pe-
riods rantiint; from two weeks to eijjht months
in no less than thirty parishes in .W\v London
and Windham counties.
His life was lonij and useful, varied in its
activities, and he was prominent in all move-
ments to educate, elevate and henefit human-
ity. Inheritin;.; his father's fund of humor
and love of historical matters, he i)ossesse<l the
same wiiuiing cordiality and friendliness of
manner. As a pastor he was earnest and in-
dustrious and especially successfid in his so-
cial relations with his parishioners. .\s a
preacher he was losjical and convincint;. adorn-
injj; his sermons with cheerfulness and a touch
of humor that attracted the attention and en-
listed the interest of his con.t;regations. re-
gardless of the seriousness or ahstruseness of
his theme. He preached effectively when he
was nearly ninety years of age. and in his
old age he remained hale and hearty, hroad.
charitahle and sym])athetic witli peoi)le of all
ages and conditions.
He married ( first I in L'olchester, Connecti-
cut. May 3. 1827. .Mary Thompson Deming,
born Octoher 9. i!^3. tlie<l October 14. 1S41,
at Xorwich. daughter of lieneral David and
.Abigail I I'hami'ion ) Deming (see (.'hamjiion
\'1(. He married (-econd), .May 1. 1S44.
Mrs. Pamela Lord (I'uller) Coit. widow of
John Coit, ami daughter of Dr. Josiah and
Mary (Lord) I'uller, of Plaintield. Connecti-
cut. He died August 2cj. i88'i. in Jcwett City,
and his widow <!ied .March J. i88i>. Child of
first wife: 1. Xathnniel. mentioned belmv.
Children of second wife: 2. Lydia Leffing-
well, married Dr. George W. Avery, and had
Helen .'^hipman .\vcry. 3. Thomas Leffing-
wcll. born I-'ebruary 27. 1S51. died I-'ebruary
27- '^S3-
(\'in Hon. Xathaniel Shipman. son of
Rev. Thomas Leffingwell Shipman. wa> born
.■\ugust 22, i8jS. at Southbury. Connecticut.
He attended the i)ul)lic schools, completing his
preparation for college at I'lainfield .\cademy
at I'lainfield. Connecticut. He was gradu-
ateil from \'ale College in the class of 1848.
and l>egan the study of law with Judge
Thomas I',. ( )sborne ( ^'ale. 1817). at I'air-
field. Connecticut. In ( H-tober. 1849. he en-
tered Vale Law School. He did not com-
plete the course there, but removed to Hart-
ford, where he was admitted to the bar and
where for manv vears he was one of the most
prominent lawyers. He was a nieml)er of the
Connecticut legislature of 1857. and was ex-
ecutive secretary of (lovernor Muckingham
from 1858 to iW)j, during one of the most
critical and ini]Kjrtant ) eriods of the slate
government. In 1875 he was ap|>ointed judge
of the Cnited State- District Court, an of-
fice that he filled with conspicuous ability. In
1884 Judge .Shipman received the honorary
degree of LL. D. from Vale College.
He married, in Hartford, .May 25. 1859.
^L^ry C, daughter of David I-'ranklin and
.\nne ( Seymour ) Robinson, and sister of Hon.
Lucius I'. Robinson. Children: i. I-'rank
Robinson, born l-"ebrn.iry 15. 18(13 ; jjraduated
from Nale College in 1885. and from the TIk-
ological Department of that university in 1889,
anil since May i. 18S9. has l)een assistant pas-
tor of the l"irst Church of Hartford. 2. \r-
thur Leffingwcll, mentioned below. 3. Mary
Deming, born July 2y, i8r^)8.> 4. Thomas Lef-
fin;.;well. born July Mi. 1870; died July 3,
i87_'. s. llenrv Robinson, born .March ^o,
1877.
( \ HI ) .\rthur Lefiingwell Shipman, son of
Hun. Xathaniel .^hipman, was l)orn at Hart-
ford. Xovember 19. 1864. He was educated
there in the ])ublic schools, and graduateil
from Vale College and ^'ale Law School. He
has practiced his ])rofession since then in the
city of Hartford, and ranks among the most
successful lawyers of that city. He won dis-
tinction as a young attorney by his success in
contestin.t: the claim of the Central Xew b'ng-
land Railroad for a right of way through the
Montague farm. In politics he is a Republi-
can. He was a member of the Hartford com-
mon council in 1891. and showed unusual apti-
tude for public business. He was appointed
corporation counsel by .Mayor Ilenney and
has ma'le a rec^ird in this office for soun<I le-
gal opinions and sturdy defense of the rights
of the municipality. In religion he is a Con-
.gregationalist. He married .\lelvina \'an
Kleek, and they have two children.
(The Lcffiiigwcll Line).
The origin of the Rnglish surname Lcf-
fingwell is uncertain. It has been s|)elled vari-
ously. Leaf|)hingwell. Levin'.;well, Lephing-
well. Lefingwell. Leapinvill. Lepingwell, Lep-
]iingwell. and Leapingwell. The last form of
the name is the one used in Kngland at the
present time, but the earliest form on record is
LeiVmgwell. the form used by the .Xmeriiran
families. In 1495- Lawrence Letlingwell lived
in county I'.ssex. Eu'dand. and there were Lcf-
fiu.irwells in county Herts also. In the parish
of White Colne. county Kssex. there was a
family c>f Leffingwells. Thomas and .Mice his
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wife. The baptisms of their chillren are in
the parish register as follows: Christian,
March i6, 1599; Michel, February 19, 1603,
probably the Michel who settled in \\'oburn,
Massachusetts, in 1637; Robert, 1637: Mar-
garet, November 10, 1630; Thomas, :\larch 10,
1624, probably the immigrant ancestor.
(I) Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell was
born in England, and was perhaps the Thomas
who was baptized at White Colne, county Es-
sex. March 10, 1624, son of Thomas and Alice
Lefifingwell. He came to New England when
quite "young, evidently, and settled in Say-
brook. Connecticut. He became very friendly
with the Indians, especially the Mohegan
tribe, of which Uncas was chief. Trumbull,
in his "History of Connecticut," says :
"Uncas, with a small band of Mohegan Indians,
was encamped on a point of land projecting into the
river, and there clqsely besieged by their most m-
veterate foes, the Narragansetts. Finding himself in
danger of being cut off by the enemy, he managed to
send to his friends, the English colony at Saybrook,
the news of his extremity, with perhaps some appeal
for .help. Upon this intelligence, one Thomas Lef-
fingwell, an ensign at Saybrook, an enterprising,
bold man, loaded a canoe with beef, corn and pease,
and, under cover of the night paddled from Say-
brook into the. Thames, and had the address to get
the whole into the fort. The enemy soon perceiving
that Uncas was relieved, raised the siege. For this
service Uncas gave Leffingwell a deed of a great
part, if not the whole of the town of Norwich. In
June. 1659, Uncas, with his two sons. Owaneco and
Attawanhood, by a more formal and authentic deed,
made over unto said Leffingwell, John Mason. Esq..
the Rev. James Fitch, and others, consisting of
thirty-five proprietors, the whole township of Nor-
wich, which is about nine miles square."
Thomas Leffingwell was afterwards lieuten-
ant. In 1659 he removed to Norwich and hacl
several grants of land there. His home lot
was on the highway next to Joseph Bushnell's
land. He became a prominent man in the
town, serving as selectman, surveyor, and on
important committees. He was deputy to the
general court for fifty-three sessions, 1662-
1700 ; and was also a commissioner. He di-
vided his property among his children before
his death, which occurred about 1714-15,
when he was about ninety-two years old. He
married Mary (perhaps White), who
died at an advanced age, February 6, 171 1.
Children: Rachel, born March 17, 1648;
Thomas, mentioned below ; Jonathan, Decem-
ber 6, 1650: Joseph, December 24, 1652;
Mary, December 10, 1654: Nathaniel, Decem-
ber II, 1656: Samuel, at Saybrook, married
Anna Dickinson.
(II) .Sergeant Thomas (2) Leffingwell, son
of Lieutenant Thomas (i) Lefifingwell, was
born at Saybrook, .August 27, 1649, and died
at Norwich, March 5, 1723-24. In 1660 he
went with his father to Norwich, where he
lived the rest of his life. He was admitted
a freeman in 1671, and was representative to
the general court. He lived near his father,
and in 1700 his house was kept as an ordinary
or inn. The inventory of his estate shows him
to have been well to do for those days. He
married, in 1672, Mary Bushnell, born at Say-
brook, lanuary, 1655, died September 2, 1745,
daughter of Richard and :\Iary (Marvin)
Bushnell. Children, all born at Norwich:
Thomas, mentioned below : Elizabeth, Novem-
ber, 1676; Anne, January 25, 1680: Mary,
March 11, 1682; Zerviah, October 17, 1686;
John, February 2, 1688-89; Abigail, August
"9, 1693; Hezekiah, 1695, died 1699.
(III) Deacon Thomas (3) Leffingwell, son
of Sergeant Thomas (2) Leffingwell, was born
at Norwich, March 11, 1674, and died there
July 18, 1733. He was a merchant and cord-
wainer by trade, and also kept an inn. He was
elected deacon of the church in 1718, In 1708
he was ensign of the First company of mili-
tia, and in 1713 was representative to the gen-
eral assembly. His will was dated March 20,
1737-38, and proved September 13, 1743. He
married, March 31, 1698, Lydia Tracy, born
October 11, 1677, died November 28, 1757,
daughter of Dr. Solomon and Sarah (Hunt-
ington) Tracy, and granddaughter of Lieu-
tenant Thomas Tracy. Children : Sarah,
born February 13, 1698-99, died April i, 1770;
Flezekiah, born May 9, 1702, died 1725 ;
Thomas, mentioned below ; Lydia, born July
28, 1706; Zerviah, May 31, 1709: Samuel,
April, 1722,
(IV) Thomas (4) Leffingwell, son of Dea-
con Thomas (3) Leffingwell, was born at
Norwich, February 2, 1703-04, and died there
September 28, 1793. in his ninetieth year. He
lived on the homestead, and carried on the
Leffingwell Tavern, He and his wife were
members of the First Congregational Church.
Fle married, January 23, 1728-29, Elizabeth,
daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Pratt)
Lord. Children : Elizabeth, born January
4, 1729-30, married Nathaniel Shipman (see
Shipman I\') ; Thomas, born July 29, 1732,
died December 8, 1814 ; Andrew, born
June 30, 1734, died August I2. 1782: Martin,
born November 13, 1738, died April 6, 1781 ;
Lydia, born June 9, 1744, died ?»Iay 23, 1823 ;
Oliver, born July 6, 1751, died at sea, Octo-
ber 5 or December 11, 1771.
(The Champion Line).
(I) Henry Champion, the immigrant an-
cestor, came from England and settled in Say-
brook, Connecticut, as early as 1647. He had
various parcels of land in Saybrook, and about
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605
iTi/O rcmovcil to Lvinc, whcrt lie was one of
the first and nio>t active li>im(lers. lie was
admitlcd a freeman there May 12, ir)7o, am!
owned laml. lie hiiilt his house on the hill
just cast of the inectiuj^ house, ami near the
old huryinji yrounrl. He died I'ehruary 17.
i7o8-o<;>. a};ed atxiut ninety-eight years. lie
married (first) ; (second), March 21,
i('ii)--<iX. Dehorah Jones, of Lyme. The fol-
lowing Se|iieml:er an a,;recment was entered
into lietween the heirs and the widcjw De-
borah rejjardin^j the distribution of the estate,
and the orii;inal of this agreement has been
preserved. Chiblren, born in Saybnmk: Sarah,
ifi4i): Mary. 1651; Stephen, 1653; Henry,
1654 : Thomas, mentioned below ; Rachel, mar-
ried John Tanner.
( II ) Thomas, son of Henry Champion, was
born in .\i)ril. 1656, in Saybrook, and died
.April 5. 1705, in Lyme. He residcfl on land
given him by his father in Lyme. He also
had grants there. His will was dated .\pril
4, 1705, the day before his tleath. He mar-
ried in Lyme, .\ugust 23. 1682, Hannah
15rockway, born September 14, ir/>4. died
March 2, 1750, daughter of W'olston and Han-
nah ( llriggs) Rrockway. .She married (sec-
ond) John Wade, of Lyme, as his second
wife. Children, born in Lvme : Hannah. I'eb-
ruary 13. if>^4: Sarah. Niarch 8. 1^)87-88;
Thomas. January 21. 1^190-91 : Mary. July 31,
1693 : Henry, mentioned below : Deborah,
.April 26, iC^7 ; Llizabeth, July i. 1(199:
Bridget. 1702.
( lin Lieutenant Henry (2) Champion, son
of Thomas Champion, was born May 2. 1(193.
in Lyme, and died at b'ast Haddam, Novem-
ber 26. 1779. When he became of age he
made an agreement with his brother Thomas
to divide the liomcstead, and in 171(1. settled
in East lladdam. where he bought fifty acres
of land in the first division. Wi: lived about
a mile ea^t of the meeting hnuse. and his
house is still standing. He was "a man of
more than medium height, square and com-
pactly built, all his joints seemed to be double,
and he was possessed of great strength. His
face was handsome, his eyes dark an(l his com-
plexion florid." His will was dated June 29.
17(14. and proved I'ebruary 7. 1780. He mar-
ried, in Last Haddam, January i('>. 1717, Me-
hitable Rowley, baptized December, 1704.
died October 5. 1775. daughter of Moses and
Mary Rowley. Children. Ix^rn in Last Had-
dam: Lbenezer. January 27. 1718. died, un-
married. January iC>. 1789; Mehitable. born
February 2-i. 1720: Henry, mentioned below:
Israel, December 20. t72('): Judah. .Augu>t
20, 1729: Mary. Xovcmber 28. 1731 : Eliza-
beth, June 26. 1734.
(I\ ) Colonel Henry (3J Champion, son
of Lieutenant Henry (2) Champion, was born
in I'"a-t lladdam, January 19, 1723. au'! lid
July j^, 1797. .\t the age of eighteen in- \'. 1-
appointed ensign of the East Haddam South
Company. In 175S he was elected captain of
a company to serve in the l*"rcnch war. i he
company left Colchester, where he had set-
tled, on June 8. i()58. and marched to join
the main army at Lake George. He left a
diary with an account of the trip and cam-
paign. He returned home November 15 and
on March 8. 1759, was elected captain of the
filth company of the second regiment, and
was transferred to the conmiand nf the twelfth
or Westchester company in .May. i7(jo. On
May 14, 1772, he was a^ipointed major of the
twelfth regiment of colonial militia. On .April
26, 1775, he served as one of the commis-
sioners to supply the troops with provisions
and stores, and when General Washington
took command of the army he recommended
that he be one of the commissaries. I le
served in that position until the evacuation of
Boston in ^^arcll. 177C1. In 1775 he was ap-
pointed colonel of the Twenty-fifth regiment.
W hen the army began to assemble at New
York. Colonel Champion acted as commissary,
and from that time the :!rmy was supplied al-
most wholly by him. He also provided for
the troops ordered to Rhode Island. He re-
ceived the appointment of sole comtnissary
general of the eastern department of the Con-
tinental army in .\pril. 1780. In that spring
he was placed in command of a train, largely
sui'plied from his own resources, to relieve the
distress of the army at Morristown. In a
very short time he reached the Hudson, was
ferried across at Newburgh. and delivered the
provisions. In ifay. 1780, he resigned his
commission and returned to his home in West-
chester. He was deputy to the general as-
sembly in 1761, from 1765 to 1779, and in
i78i-83-9t>9i-92. He was <leacon of the
Westchester church from 1775 until his death.
He married (first) in East Haddam. De-
cember 25. 174(1. Deborah Brainard. born June
20, 1724. died March 17, 178^). daughter of
Captain Joshua and .Mehitable (Dudley)
Brainard. He married (second), in West-
chester. November 24. 1791. Mrs. Sarah
( Brainanl) Lewis, born April 30, 1744, died
January 17, 1818. wiflow of Judah Lewis, and
ilaughter of Stephen and Susannah (Gates)
r.rainard. Chililren, all by first wife: t.
Henry, born in East Haddam. (October 2_],
1747: died January 26, 1750. 2. Epaphrodi-
tus. born .\pril i(>, 1749. in East Haddam;
killc'l in Westchester. July 13. 1752, being
scalded in a vat of malt. 3. Henry, mentioned
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below. 4. Deborah, Ijorn May 3. 1/53- 5-
Epaphroditus, born April 6, 1756. 6. Dor-
othy, born October 29, 1759. 7. Mary, born
September 11, 1762. 8. Elizabeth, twin of
Mary. 9. Esther, born May 8, 1766.
(V) General Henry (4) Champion, son of
Colonel Henry (3) Champion, was born in
Westchester, Connecticut, March 16, 1751,
and died there July 13. 1836. He served in
the revolution as ensign, at the Lexington
alarm. On April 26. 1775, he was appointed
second lieutenant of the Eighth company, Sec-
ond regiment, and on JVIay i promoted to first
lieutenant. He was on duty at Roxbury until
December 10, He was in the battle of Bun-
ker Hill. On January i, 1776, he was pro-
niiited adjutant on the staff of Colonel Sam-
uel Wvllys. and after the evacuation of Bos-
ton, marched to New York, and assisted in
fortifying that city. He took part in the bat-
tle of Long Island, August 27, 1776, and was
with the army at White Plains, October 28,
remaining until December, 1776. On January
I, 1777, he was promoted captain of the First
Connecticut Line, remaining until the regi-
ment was reorganized as the Third. On July
15, 1779, he was appointed acting major of the
First battalion, Light Brigade. This corps
was composed of picked men from all the regi-
ments under Washington's immediate com-
mand, and was organized especially to at-
tempt the capture of Stony Point, which was
successfully done. Major Champion remained
in the army until the close of the revolution.
He was a member of the Order of the Cincin-
nati in Connecticut.
Major Champion was deputy to the general
assembly in 1789, 1793-98, 1800-05, and from
1806 to 1817 was assistant. Fie was a deacon
in the Westchester church from 1813 to 1828.
General Champion always celebrated July 16,
"Stony Point Day," at his home in Westches-
ter. He obtained the charter for the Phoenix
Bank of Hartford, because the State Bank
had refused him the accommodation of a loan.
He was largely interested in the Connecticut
Land Company, to which he subscribed over
eighty-five tliousand dollars. The towns of
Champion. New York, and Champion, Ohio,
were named in his honor. He was instru-
mental in obtaining the school fund for Con-
necticut, and was chairman of the committee
of the legislature appointed to arrange for
the holfling of the Hartford Convention in
1814. His epitaph reads as follows:
"The patriotism of General Champion early led
him to join the army of the Revolution. He was a
brave and efficient subaltern officer at the battle of
Bunker Hill, lie shared in the perilous retreat of
the American troops from Long Island. He ren-
dered essential services under Kosciusko in con-
structing the defences at West Point. He led the
first battalion of Connecticut Light Infantry at the
capture of Stony Point. Subsequently he filled many
offices of honor and trust in his native State. By
his talents and influence he promoted the welfare
i)f the community where he resided. He died
cheered by the hope and sustained by the promises
of the Gospel, leaving a memory respected by his
friends, cherished by his family and honorable to
the place of his birth."
He married, in East Haddam, October 10,
1 78 1, Abigail Tinker, born March 24, 1758,
died April 19, 1818, daughter of Sylvanus and
Abigail (Olmstead) Tinker. Children, born
in ii'estchester : i. Henry, born August 6,
1782. 2. Aristarchus, born October 23, 1784.
3. Aristobulus, twin of Aristarchus, died Feb-
ruary 3, 1786. 4. Abigail, mentioned below.
5. Harriet, born May 2, 1789. 6. Maria, born
November 19, 1791. 7. Infant, born March
II, 1794; died young. 8. Infant, born Sep-
tember 2, 1795 ; died young. 9. Eliza, born
Julv 19, 1797. 10. William, twin of Eliza,
died April 21, 1798.
(\'n Abigail, daughter of General Henry
(4) Champion, was born in Westchester, Jan-
uary 17. 1787, and died in Hartford, March 31,
1835. She married in ^^'estchester, September
17, 1804, her cousin. General David Deming,
born August 23, 1781, died June 6, 1827, son
of Major Jonathan and Alice (Skinner) Dem-
ing, and grandson of David and Mehitable
(Champion) Deming. Children: i. Mary
Thompson Deming, born October 9, 1805 ;
married Rev. Thomas L. Shipman ( see Ship-
man \^I). 2. Harriet Tinker, born February
23. 1808; died September 5, 1810. 3. Abigail
Champion, born June 18, 1810; died unmar-
ried, June II, 1846. 4. Jonathan Amory, born
October 19, 1812: died May 3, 1828. 5.
Henry Champion, born May 23, 1815.
The name Hallock has been
HALLOCK variously spelled Holveake,
Holliok.' Halliock, Halleck,
Hallioak, Hallick and Hallack. The signature
of William Hallock of Long Island, dated at
Southold (township) February 10, 16S2, and
on record at Riverhead, is written Hollyoake
by the copyist, and it is cjuite evident that it
was used interchangeably with that of Hol-
yoke. 1die latter name ha« been known in
England fiM- centuries, and there is a family
coat-of-arms. One Edward Holyoke migrated
from Stafford countv in 1639, and was after-
wards president of Harvard College. His son,
Eliztn- Holyoke, became well known in north-
western Massachusetts from having received a
grant of land near Northampton in 1654; also
from tb.e fact that Ml. Holvoke was named for
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him liccaiisc lie camped at it'- ba^^c- while li><>k-
inij for land. Tiie family arm> appear in his
will, 171 1, as I'olldws: Azure, a chevmn ar-
).;eiit, cutised, or, between three crescents of
the second. Crest: a crescent, ardent.
(I) Peter Mallock, the first of the family to
come to .-\merica, and one of the New Haven
Colony, landed at Hallock's Neck, Southokl,
Lonjj Island, in i'>4o, and settled near Matti-
tnck. He came over with a company of Puri-
tans with the Rev. .Mr. John Youngs, .\ccord-
inj; to a trailition in the family, Peti-r Hallock
was the first of the thirteen men who composed
the company, to set foot on the shore am<jn<j
the Indians at Southold. For this reason that
part of the villaj.;e was iiameil MallfX"k's Neck,
and the beach e.xtendinj^ from it Hallock's
Beach, iiaims which are still retained. He pur-
chased from the Indians the tract of land since
called ( )yster Ponds, now ( )rient, and then re-
turned to l'jij;land for his wife and on coni-
inj; back with her found that the Indians had
resold his property. He then bought about ten
miles west of Mattituck. His wife was a widow
when he married her, and had a son by her
former husband, .Mr. Howell. The only child
of the second marriage was William, mention-
ed below.
(IF) William, son of Peter Hallock. was
born, lived and died at Mattituck. His wife was
Marg.iret . He died Sei)tembcr 28,
i()84, leaving a will dated Southold (town-
ship), l-'ebruary 10, 1682, and proved October
21, i')84, which is preserveil in the ancient rec-
ords both of Suffolk county at Riverhcad and
of New York City. He left his i)roperty to his
wife, four sous. Thomas, Peter, \Villiam and
John, and his five daughters. .Margaret, Mar-
tha, Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail. To Thomas
and Peter he gave the farm where he lived, giv-
ing Thomas the western half, except the
"swamji lot." and Peter the eastern half, in-
cluding the said lot and his <lwelling house. To
William be left laiiil near South >M \illage,
and to John land on Wading river. The will
implies deep sorrow that his son John had mar-
ried into and joined the prescribed Society of
Friends.
( HI ) John, son of William Hallock. married
Abigail Swazey. He removed to Setaukct in
Pirookhaveu, and died there in 1737. His wife
died in the same year Jainiary 2.^, "both very
ancient and in imity with Friends." Deeds in
Riverhcad, Long Island, mention four of his
sons. John. Peter. Pcnjamin. mentioned below,
and \Villiam, who settled near him, as did also
his son Jonathan. His dwelling house in Se-
taukct. covered with cedar, is still standing.
( W) Benjamin, son of John Hallock. was
born about 1700, and settled near his father at
Setauket, Loug Island. Children: Benjamin,
born September n, 1729; Stephen, mentioned
below.
( \ ) .Stephen, son of Benjamin Hallock, was
born in Setauket. Long Island, and removed to
Richmond. Massachusetts. He was a soldier in
the Revolution from that town, a private in
t^iptain Rowley's company. Colonel John
Brown's regiment of Berkshire county militia
from June 30, 1777, to July 21, at Fort Ann on
the Ticonderoga alarm. He was also in Cap-
tain Rowley's company. Colonel John .Vshley's
regiment, July 22 to .Augiist 13, 1777, at Still-
water. He was in Captain Joseph Raymond's
company. Colonel Lrael ihapin's regiment,
October 18 to November 2, 1777, at Claverack,
to reinforce the continental army. He was in
Captain John Bacon's company. Colonel David
Rossetcr's regiment, at Stillwater, in 1780). .Af-
ter the revolution he settled at Willistou, \'er-
mont. in I7<><) the first federal census shows
that he had in his family at Williston, Chitten-
den comity, four males over sixteen, two under
that ;igc, ami six females; his son ."Stephen was
head of a family, consisting of wife and two
sons under sixteen, and his son Content had
only two males over sixteen in his family. In
1792 Stephen ])urchased the jiresent residence
of his relative, Rufus Stevens, at Richmond,
X'crmont, on the (")bio river. He died there
< >ctober 31, 1803. aged sixty-six. according to
his gravestone. He married .Sarah ( "hamber-
lin at Richmond. Massachusetts. He had six
sons, all <if whom settled in Richmond. \'er-
mont : Stei)hen. Content ( Chambcrlin ), Joseph.
John, Isaac, mentioned lielow. .Amos.
( \'n Isaac, son of Stephen Hallock, was born
about 1770. He removed with his ])arents
from Richmond. MassaTluf^etts, to Williston.
X'ermont. and afterward, about 1702. settled at
Richmond. \'ermont. He died at Middlesex,
X'ermont. Chiklren : .Ansel, mentioned below :
Isaac, Joseph. .*^tephcn.
( \'II ) Ansel, son of Isaac Hallock. was born
at Richmond. A'emiont. about 1800. He mar-
ried . Children, born at Richmond :
Ste])hen. September 16. 1824. irientioned be-
low : Joseph, of Woodstock. Connecticut : Isaac
of Hubbardston. Massachusetts : Lucretia,
married Sim[)Son Hayes : Lucinda. married
Lester Cameron : Emily, marriecl Wallace
P.ruce: Elizabeth, rlied unmarrieil. aged fifty-
six vears : Marv. married George Stone: .An-
sel. ■
(\'III) Stephen (2). son of .Ansel Hallock,
was born at Richmond. \'ermont, September
16. 1824. flied at White River Junction. .April
12. 1808. He was a railroad contractor. He
marrie<l Sarah Jane, daughter of .Abner Wells,
of Middlesex. X'ermont. Her mother's maiden
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name was Lewis. Children: i. William Theo-
dore, born at Braintree, Vermont, February 9,
1855; married Sarah Nash, of White River
Junction. Vermont : child, Ralph. 2. Elmer
Ellsworth, mentioned below. 3. Jennie Maude,
born November 12, 1864, died March i, 1906,
married George E. Fellows, of White River
Junction ; children : Don E., Eda B. and Dean
Fellows.
(IX) Elmer Ellsworth, son of Stephen (2)
Hallock. was born at Braintree, ^'ermont, June
3, 1863. He was educated in the public schools
of White River Junction. For eleven years he
was in the employ of tlie Case, Lockwood &
Brainerd Company, of Hartford, Connecticut.
He then entered the life insurance business
with the Aetna Life Insurance Company of
Hartford, Connecticut. In 1895 he became
general manager of the Aetna Life Insurance
Company for southern and western Connecti-
cut, with offices in New Haven, where he now
is. He is a member of the Union League Club
of New Haven, of the New Haven Yacht Club,
and the Charter Oak Lodge, Independent Or-
der of Odd Fellows, of Hartford. He is a mem-
ber of Trinity Church of New Haven, and in
politics is a Republican. He married, Novem-
ber 6, 1882, Harriet A., born September 16,
1864, daughter of Cornelius V. and Maryette
(Vining) Chapin. They had one son, Roy
Edgar, mentioned below.
(X) Roy Edgar, son of Elmer Ellsworth
Hallock, was born at Hartford, Connecticut,
October 28, 1885. He attended the South
school of Hartford, and in 1897 entered the
Mount Pleasant Military Academy at Ossin-
ing-on-the-Hudson, leaving in 1902. He spent
one year at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville,
Connecticut, graduating in 1903, and entering
the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale L'niver-
sity in the fall of the same year. He graduated
from Yale in the class of 1906. After a year
or so of free-lance work in the magazine field,
he located with the Larkin Company of Buf-
falo, taking charge of considerable of their
publicity work and at the same time publishing
a magazine for them. In 1909 he returned to
New York to take charge of the editorial and
advertising t'epartments of Every Woman's
Magazine. In the fall of 1910 he was made
a director in the company and elected secre-
tary. He is a member of the Aldine Club of
New York, the Yale Club of New York, the
Marine and Field Club of New York, and the
L^nion League Club of New Haven.
(R') William Hallock, son
HALLOCK of John Hallock (q.v.), was
was born about 1722; died
about 1782. He lived many years at Stony
Rrook, but was in Greenwich, Connecticut, dur-
ing most of the revolutionary war, in which
he suffered nuich in the command of picket
boats on the sound. He married Sarah Sax-
ton, of Huntington, Long Island, sister of
Harriet Saxton, who married Zephaniah Piatt,
the founder of Plattsburg, New York. After
]Mr. Hallock died his widow lived with her
youngest daughter Anne, wife of Lodowick
Hackstafif, in Sing Sing and New York City,
and was buried in St. Paul's church yard,
Brooklyn, in 1806, aged eighty-three years.
Children: i. William, mentioned below. 2.
Anne, died at Brooklyn, in August, 1841, aged
seventv-four years, married Lodowick Hack-
staff. 3. Elizabeth, born September 16, 1750,
died 1846, aged ninety-six years, mother of
Hallock Bromley, father of Isaac W. R. Brom-
lev, of New York. 4. George, an enterprising
ship-builder in Stony Brook ; father of Joseph,
George (2), Benjamin, Charles D., Erasmus
and Nathaniel. 5. Zephaniah Piatt, died in
New York City in 183 1, aged sixty-six, father
of Charles S., of New York, Charlotte W., of
Tarrytown, New York, and grandfather of
John Youngs Hallock, a prominent merchant
of San Francisco.
(V) William (2), son of William (i) Hal-
lock, was born about 1755. He was a
soldier in the revolution and a prisoner of the
British one year in the old sugar-house of in-
famous memory in New York City. He was
taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island. His
widow was one of the last of the revolutionary
war pensioners. He married Ruth Hawkins.
Her last days were spent in Derby, Connecti-
cut. Children, Zephaniah, mentioned below;
Israel, in partnership with Zephaniah ; Warren
H., of Brooklyn. New York, a ship-builder ;
Alarv Rebecca, Sarah.
(VI) Zephaniah, son of William (2) Hal-
lock. was born on Long Island at Stony Brook,
1792. died at Derby. Connecticut, January 11,
1870. He came to Derby in 1816 and engaged
in shipbuilding, first at Sugar street, and then
at Derby Narrows, where he builtmany vessels.
He was in partnership with his brother Israel.
Few, if anv, men ever lived in town more
universally respected than Zephaniah. He was
a zealous Congregationalist, joining the church
in vouth and manifesting his faith in daily good
works through a long and useful life. His
high standards of morality and business and
the daily example of integrity made him a
powerful influence for good in the connnunity.
He was of cheerful disposition and socially at-
tractive. He was active in the church and sel-
dom absent from meetings. As ship-builders
the Hallocks always bore an enviable reputa-
tion, both at home and abroad. Zephaniah was
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affectionately called "Uncle Zepli " in later
years and the town history pays him the com-
pliment of beinj,' one of "the most honest men
that ever lived." "There was no (iii|)licity or
donhie dealinj,' in his character and rather than
shirk his contracts by ])iittin}i in shodiiy timber
or practicin),' an\ cjud^^c np<>ii his employees, he
would sooner suffer loss in dollars." Therefore,
anv vessel labeled with the name of Ilallock
whether in port or on the ocean always bore
the |)alm of j.;reat merit. Me took jiart in the
war of 1812. He married Sarah Hall, a native
of Cairo, New York. Children: William Hen-
ry; I-'ranklin ; Frederick H., died in infancy;
Ann .Xn^'usta, Kdwin, wiio is further men-
tioned below.
l\TI) Edwin, son of Zejihaniah Hallock,
was born at Derby, Connecticut. August 16,
1840. and his boyhood and later life have been
spent in his native town. He attended the pub-
lic sciiools and S. .\. Law Post's "Classical and
Conmiercial Institute." His first work after
leaving school was in a wood-turning shop,
where he spent a year and ])retty thoroughly
mastered the trade. During the next five
years he was teller in the Derby Savings Bank
and learned the elements of business and ac-
(|uired valuable habits of accuracy and preci-
sion in daily life. Mr. Hallock and his brother
I'ranklin had previously purchased the hard-
ware store, which was founded in 1835 by S.
A. Downs & Company. Afterwards the firm
became L)own> & Sanford, then Downs, .San-
ford & Com|)anv, and later 1". Hallock & Com-
pany. Mr. Ilallock incorporated his business
in 1897 as the I". Halloclc Company, of which
he is president. The concern has a very large
trade in all kinds of hardware and building
material. Mr. Ilallock has al-o been engaged
in the real estate business in Derby. In p.)litics
he is a Republican. He was a member of the
school board of Derby for five years. He rep-
lesented the town in tb.e general assembly of
the state in 181)7. KJJV05. and each year was
api'i'intcd to important vonunittees and denion-
str,->Ied umi-ual .diilily as a legislator. In lOO.V
04 he -erved on the committee on claims, banks
and appropriations. He is a trustee of the Der-
by Savings Rank and a trustee of the Derby
Hospital. He is a prominent Congregational-
ist, treasurer of the I'irst Congregational
Church of Derby, member of the Congrega-
titmal Club of New Haven and treasurer of the
Derby "S'oung Men's Christian .\ssociation. He
is a member of the New Haven Chapter, Con-
necticut Society, Sons of the .\merican Revo-
lution ; of the New Haven Colony Hist<^rical
Society, of New Haven, and of f)"satonic
Lodge No. if), Independeni ( )r 'er of Odd I-"e!-
lows. of Derbv. He is unmarried.
The family bearing this name is
SMITH one of the oldot in New London
county, and one which has given
to the state many good and honorable citi-
zens, who have played well their parts in pub-
lic anti municipal affair>, as well as in private
life. One of the original pro|)rictors of the'
town of Norwich wa-. Rev. .\ebemiah Smith,
who was born in England alxiut 1O05. He
emigrated to America, and wa.s admitted a
freeman at I'lyniouth, Massachusetts, March
0, i<>.?7-38. He married .\nna Ilourne, whose
si>ter Martha m;irrie<l |ohn llradford. son of
Ciovernor William Hradford. Rev. Mr. Smith
lived in Stratforil, New Haven, New l^n<Ion,
(jrotoii, and came to Norwich as one of the
original proprietors, purchasing land from Un-
cas in June, 1659. The descenilants of Rev.
Mr. Smith are very numerous throughout
eastern Coimecticut.
( I ) Thomas Smith, a descendant of Rev.
Nehemiah Smith, was born in Ledyard, Con-
necticut, May 16, 1754, died December i,
1844. in I'ranklin, Connecticut. He was a
farmer and also worked at coo])ering. He
enlisted from Stonington, Connecticut, in the
revolutionary army. .May 17, 1775. for seven
months, umler Cajjtain .*^ann:el Prentice; later
for two months lie was under command of
(.ajitain James Gordon ; subsequently for two
months untler command of Captain John
Swan, lie received a pension for his services.
He was a member of the Methoflist church in
Ledyard, and was a Whig in politics. In 1844
he moved to I-ranklin with his son. Prentice
P.. and residctl there the remainder of his
days. He married, November 2. 1777, Thank-
ful Pennett, born October 5, 1757, died at the
home of her son. Prentice P.. .\uL;ust 9, 1850.
Mr. Smith was an iijiright Christian man, and
his wife was exceedingly well versed in the
Scriptures. Children: i. Polly, born January
27. 1779; married a Mr. Geer, and removed
to Erie. Pennsylvania. 2. Petsev. October i,
1780; married a ^^r. Latham, and removed
west. ,v .Abigail, .Xjiril 28. 1782 : married a
Mr. Grant, and died .\ugust 26, 1820. 4.
Th<imas. March 12. 1784: iiiarried (first)
Phebe Pennett: (second) Phebe L. Johnson;
died December i. 1844. 5. Thankful, .\pril
23, I78(.. died July I. 1797. 6. Nancy. May
20. 1788: married William .Avery, and rc<ided
in Windham. 7. I.ydia. November 14. 1790,
died .August 20, 1813. 8. Fanny, Februarv 13.
179.V died August 20. 18 13. 0. Prentice P..
see forward.
(IT) Prentice P.. son of Thomas and
Thankful (Bennett) .Smith, was Ixirn in led-
yard. Connecticut. September 11, 1795. He
attended the district school, was reared to
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farm work, and his business career was de-
voted to farming and coopering, having a farm
in the north part of Ledyard and a shop on
the farm, making many barrels for use in the
West Indies molasses trade. He removed to
Franklin, 1844, where two sons had preceded
him, and he purchased the farm of Andrew
Hull. A few years later he disposed of the
farm in Ledyard, and remained on the farm
in Franklin until 1868, when he and his wife
went to live with their son, William C, re-
maining until their deaths, his occurring Jan-
uary 3, 1881, and that of his wife December
17, 1885. In early life JMr. Smith united with
the Ledvard Aletliodist Episcopal Church, but
later transferred to the Bean Hill Alethodist
Church. His wife also held membership in
the same churches. During his residence in
Ledyard he took an active part in church mat-
ters.' In politics he was first a Whig and later
a Republican, representing Ledyard one term
in the legislature, serving on the board of
selectmen, and holding other minor offices. He
married, December i, 1814, Alaria Avery,
born August 13, 1797. Children: i. Sarah
Maria, born September 30, 181 5 ; married Rev.
Silas Leonard, a Methodist minister, and died,
in Franklin, November 29. 1884. 2. Prentice
O., August 3, 1817; married Eliza King, who
died June 17, 1904; he was a member of the
firm of Smith Brothers for many years, and
later was general agent of a publishing house :
he died in Franklin, February 14, 1898. 3.
John Owen, see forward. 4. T.Iary Louisa,
January 25, 1822 ; married John Shapley, a
machinist by trade, and they resided in
Cazenovia, New York, for a number of years,
but later removed to Gananoque, Canada. 5.
.Austin .v., May 21. 1824: married Frances
Mather ; he was a machinist by trade, but was
engaged in several business enterprises ; he
died in Franklin, April 22, 1883. 6. Henry N.,
April 18, 1827 : married Lydia Lathrop, and
resided in Franklin, where he was engaged at
farming until his death, June 15, 1883; in
early life he was connected with the firm of
Smith Brothers ; he was a deacon in the
Franklin Congregational Church. 7. Lucian
H., July I, 1829; married Jane Lathrop; was
a blacksmith, later a farmer, and was killed
by a fall in his barn in Bozrah, October 5.
1879. 8. Frances H., April 24, 1832: married
Hekekiah Huntington, and resided in New
York. 9. ^\'illiam Curtis, July i, 1835; mar-
ried Elizabeth H. Mumf ord ; a farmer, and re-
sides in Franklin : served as deacon in the
Franklin church. 10. Ezra Leonard, August
II, 1837: a farmer, and resides in Minne-
apolis, Minnesota : married Lucy Hastings, of
Franklin.
(III) John Owen, son of Prentice P. and
Maria (Avery) Smith, was born in Ledyard,
Connecticut, October 0, 1819. He removed to
Franklin in voung manhood, and before he
became of age bought his time from his father,
and was employed in the carriage shop as a
carriage trimmer. Later on he traveled for
the establishment, selling buggies and wagons
in New London and surrounding counties. He
purchased the homestead farm at Smith's
Corners, and for many years this was looked
after by his son, Owen S., and Mr. Smith
was general agent in Massachusetts for the
successive editions of the atlas published by
Mitchell &• Bradley, from which he realized a
goodly competence. Later he was an agent
for the celebrated ^^'est's American Tire Set-
ter. From 1889 to 1893 he devoted his at-
tention to his farm, and in the latter-named
year disposed of the farm and removed to
Norwich, to make his home with his son,
Frank H., residing there until his death, Jan-
uary 30, 1896. He was a Republican in poli-
tics, and represented Franklin one term in
the legislature. He was the prime mover in
the erection of the Franklin Congregational
Church and parsonage, was active in looking
after its finances, and served as superintend-
ent of the Sunday school for many years.
Islr. Smith married, in 1842. .Abby Shapley
King, born in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1822.
daughter of Captain Joseph and Abby ( Shap-
ley ) King. She died September 21, 1894,
and her remains were interred in Yantic cem-
etery, as were also those of her husband.
Children: i. Owen S., see forward. 2. Frank
H., born March 28, 1852; married (first)
Florence Proctor: (second) Maude Rich-
mond ; children of second wife : Helen B.
and Frank R., the latter a member of the firm
of J. P. Barstow & Company in Norwich. 3.
Julia O., born 1856, died in 1897, unmarried.
(IV) Owen S., son of John Owen and Abby
Shapley (King) Smith, was born in Frank-
lin. Connecticut, June 29, 1848. He received
his education in the district schools, the sdect
schools in Franklin, and the Norwich Free
Academy. Upon the completion of his studies
he returned to the home farm and assumed
the management of it for his father, remain-
ing there for eight years after his marriage,
until 188 1, when he moved to his present
farm in Norwich Town, which place has Iseen
in the possession of the Huntington family
for almost two hundred years. Mr. Smith
has devoted his attention to general farming,
and from 1887 to 1900 conducted a success-
ful ice business, after which he turned his
attention tn the real estate business, in which
he has been equally successful. He is a Re-
liCTICLT
publican in |x>litics. but has never souyht or
held public oHicc, preferring to devote his
time to bu>ine>s pursuits. Me united with
liie I'ranklin Conj; relational church, was
transferred to the Second Congregational
Liuirch at Norwich and later tu tlie l-irst
Lim^regatiunal Church, lie served as sui)er-
inteiident nf the Second Congregational
Clnirch ii>r several sears. Mr. Smith mar-
ried, Uctober 2, 1K72, Harriet Kunice Hunt-
ington, born in her present home, June 27,
185 1, gradualei! at Norwich l-ree .\cademy,
class of 1871, daughter of Deacon Ivlward
.\ndrew and Harriet A. (Lyman) Hunting-
ton (see Huntington \II ). Chihlren : i.
Kdward Huntington, born July i, 1873; was
educatetl in Norwich I'ree .\cadeniy, .\nihcrst
College (from which he graduated in 1898)
and Hartford Theological Seminary (from
which Ik- graduated in ujoi ) ; he was ordained
at Norwich Town in June, lyoi, as a foreign
missionary of the .\merican IJoard, and has
been stationel at l-'uo Chow, China, since
December, lyoi. He married, October 2.
\tjoi. (.jrace W. Thomas, of lioston : children:
Helen Huntington, born December 19, 1902;
I'Mward Huntington, Jr.. born January 2(t.
H/J5, died .\pril 11, 1910, in China: Eunice
i;iizabeth. iiorn .May 24, 1906; all born in
China. 2. Mabel Kin;, Ix^rn December 21.
1874 : graduated from Norwich b'ree .\cad-
emy. class of i8(j_^: married. (Jctober 2, 1901.
r. .Snowden Thomas, of I'.oston : children:
Lucille I-ranklin, born .\ugust 21, 1902;
Julian Snowden, born ^[arch 11, 1904: I'aul
.^mith, June 27, 1906: Donald James, .March
31, 190S. Mr. Thomas is general secretary
of the Young Men's Christian .\ssociation at
W'atertown, New York. 3. Harold Lyman,
born ( )ctober 2, 1886; graduated in 1904 from
Norwich I'rce .Academy. 4. Sidney I'almer.
born Jamiary 11. 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Owen
S. Smith reside in the old Huntington house,
Huntington avenue, P.ean Hill. Norwich. This
house was built in 17 17. and here six genera-
tions of the Huntington family were born.
( Tlu- IbintiiiKlnn Line)
( I ) Simon Huntington, immigrant ances-
tor, was born in England, and sailed for New
F.nglan<l in if>33 with his wife and children,
but was taken ill and died on the voyage, of
smallpox. His widow. Margaret ( Ilarrett 1
Huntington, settled with her children first at
Roxbmy. Massachusetts, where she married
(second) i'>.^.=>-3'i, Thomas Stoughton. of
Dorchester. They removed to Windsor. Con-
necticut, and settled there, ^^argaret was
lirobablv born in Norwich. England. Prac-
tically nothing is known of .Simon Hunting-
ton. Even his name was a mystery to the
early genealogi.sts of the family. Children:
1. William, settled in Salisbury about 1640.
2. Thomas, settled in Connecticut. 3. Chris-
topher. 4. Simon, see forward. 5. Ann, men-
tioned in a letter written by I'eter liret to
his sister. .Nfargaret ( IJarrett") Huntington.
(H) Simon (2), son of Sim<jn (i) Hunt-
ington, was b(jrn in England alxnit 1630, and
came to .\merica on the ill-fated voyage with
his mother in 1633. He settled in Norwich,
and was a member of Mr. Fitch's church
there. He was a deacon of the church until
i()(/}. when his son succeeded him. He was
a member of the general assembly in 1074;
had a grant of land in if»8(j; was townsman
in KJ90-94. In i(>94 he was on a committee
to search out and report the deficiencies in the
iniblic records. He served on the committee
to seat the meeting house, iCjcjj, and in 1700
was on a committee to give deeds and fix titles
of lands in dispute or with defective title. He
married, in October. 1653. Sarah, daughter of
Joseph Clark, of Windsor, Connecticut. She
died in 1721, aged eighty-eight. He died at
.W.rwich, June 28, 1700, aged seventy-seven.
Children: 1. Sarah, born at Saybrook. Au-
gust. 1654; married Dr. .Solomon Tracv. 2.
Mary, born at Saybrook, .August. 1657:' mar-
ried a I'orbes, of Preston. 3. Simon, .see for-
ward. 4. Joseph, born September. K/n. 5.
Elizabeth, born at Norwich, Februarv, 1664,
died young. 6. .Samuel, born at .Norwich,
-March i. 1665. 7. bllizabeth, l)orn at Nor-
wich, October 6, i(V)(>: married Jose|)h Itackus.
8. Nathaniel, born at Norwich, Julv 10. 1672,
died young. 9. Daniel. lx>rn"at' .Norwich,
ALnrch 13, 1675-76.
( I H ) Deacon Simon ( 3 ) . son of Simon
(2) Huntington, was born in .Saybrook, Con-
necticut. February 6. 1659. died November 2,
^73'^>- He was taken by his parents to Nor-
wich, in the spring of i6('». and resided on
the homestead which was described in the rec-
ords as "the home lot lying on both sides of
the highway." in the second book, and as
"four acres, abutting east on land of Thomas
Tracy, south on lan<l of .Mr. James I'itch and
north on the highway." also "four acres over
the highway against his home lot." in the first
book of records. In the second records, the
south division abuts north on the street twentv-
fivc and a half rods, west on the street thir-
teen and a half rods, south on land .>f Cap-
tain Fitch fourteen rods: the line then runs
southeast four rods, abutting northwest on
the Fitch lot. runs .southwest from there two
rods, four feet, from there west two rods,
south twenty rods minus four feet, abutting
west on Captain Fitch's land and south on
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Fitch's land eighteen rods, and east on Lieu-
tenant Thomas i racy's land forty-three rods.
The frontage of twenty-live and a half rods
comes from the land of Charles Young to the
corner near the house lately occupied by the
Rev. Charles A. Northrop, and then the west-
ern frontage of thirteen and a half rods goes
along the road by the Green as far as the
house occupied by Miss Grace ]\lcClellan. The
houses of the first and second Simon Hunt-
ingtons were situated on this land. Like his
cousin, Christopher, Simon was destined to a
most important service in the early history of
the home chosen for him by his parents. In-
heriting his father's piety and gifts, he was
called in 1696 to succeed him to the deacon-
ship, and in this ofifice he served with no less
than his father's fidelity and acceptance, as'
long as he lived. He was largely engaged in
civil affairs, serving in many of the most im-
portant offices with marked ability. His
house, occupying a central position, was hon-
ored as the magazine for the defensive weap-
ons of the town, and as late as 1720 a report
made to the town states that it contained a
half-barrel of powder, thirty-one pounds of
bullets and four hundred flints. In 1682 it
was voted in town meeting to grant "to Simon
Huntington Jun. to take up one hundred akers
of land on the Shawtucket, not prejudicing
the highways nor former grants." He mar-
ried, October 8, 1683, Lydia Gager, born in
Norwich, August 8, 1663, died August 8, 1737,
daughter of John and Elizalaeth (Gore)
Gager, and granddaughter of that "right
goodly man and skillful chyrurgeon," who
had come to America in 1660 with Governor
Winthrop. John Gager, her father, removed,
in 1635, from Charlestown, Massachusetts, to
Saybrook, subsequently to New London, and
thence in 1660 to Norwich, Connecticut. Chil-
dren : Simon, born 1686: Sarah. 1687-88:
Deacon Ebenezer, see forward ; Captain
Joshua, 1698.
(IV) Deacon Ebenezer, son of Deacon
Simon (3) Huntington, was born in Norwich,
Connecticut, May, 1692. died September 12,
1768. He became a member of the church in
1717. and was chosen deacon January 18,
1737. to succeed his father, in which office he
served until 1764, on the appointment of his
son. He married. June 20, 1717, Sarah, born
in Norwich, February 13, 1698-99, died April
I, 1770, daughter of Deacon Thomas and Ly-
dia (Tracy) Leifingwell. Children: Sarah,
born 1718: Rev. Simon, see forward; Lucy,
1722: Lydia, 1735.
fV) Rev. Simon (4), son of Deacon Eben-
ezer Huntington, was born in Norwich. Con-
necticut, September 12, 1719, in the Simon
Huntington house on Bean Hill, died Decem-
ber zj, 1801. He graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1741, united with the church, 1742,
studied theology and preached until his health
failed. He was chosen deacon to succeed his
father in 1764. He married (first) January
17. 175 1) Hannah Tracy, born September 2,
1727, died January 30, 1753. He married
(second) January 24, 1759, Zipporah Lathrop,
born 1733, died March 16, 1814. Children by
first wife: Samuel, born 1751 ; Hannah, 1753.
By second wife: Roger, 1759; Daniel, 1762;
Ebenezer, see forward; Erastus, 1769.
(V'l) Ebenezer (2), son of Rev. Simon
(4) Huntington, was born in Norwich, in the
Simon Huntington house on Bean Hill, Au-
gust 26, 1764, died February 27, 1853. He
was a farmer, residing on Bean Hill, Nor-
wich, where his death occurred. He married,
in Lebanon, September 26, 1806, Eunice, born
July 30, 1779. daughter of Captain Andrew
and Ruth (Hyde) Huntington, of Lebanon,
Connecticut. Children : Mary Ann, born Oc-
tober 30, 1807: Cornelia Eliza, February 8,
1809: Edward Andrew, see forward: William
Lathrop, February 8, 1817, ched August 11,
1825 : Samuel Tracy, September 20, 1819, died
August ID, 1825.
(\II) Deacon Edward Andrew, son of
Ebenezer (2) Huntington, was born in Nor-
wich, in the Simon Huntington house, on
Bean Hill, October 23, 181 1. He was chosen
deacon of the First Congregational Church
in Norwich in 1857, and was the seventh of
that name that had been called to same office
in that ancient church. He married, in Wood-
stock, Connecticut, June 26, 1850, Harriet A.,
daughter of Daniel Lyman, M.D., of South
Woodstock, and granddaughter of Rev. Eli-
phalet Lyman, who was pastor of the Con-
gregational church in Woodstock from 1780
to 1825, and who died February 2. 1836, aged
eighty-two years. His wife, Hannah Hunt-
ington, was born April 28, 1753. married, in
1779, and died in Woodstock, April 19, 1836.
She was a woman of unusual brilliancy of in-
tellect, and retained her mental faculties re-
markably in her advanced years. Children of
Deacon Edward Andrew Huntington: i. Har-
riet Eunice, born June 27, 185 1 : married,
October 2, 1872, Owen S. Smith ; Mr. and
Mrs. Smith reside in the old Simon Hunting-
ton house on Bean Hill, Norwich, built in
1717. in which house six generations of the
Huntington family were born fsee Smith
IV). 2. ]\Iary Eldredge, born December 29,
1854: married, December 28, i88r, Charles
W. Haines, a lawyer of Colorado Springs,
Colorado : children : Faith Huntington and
Marion Huntington Haines, both unmarried.
c().\N'r-:cTU IT
'i'3
libcnczcr Smith, a descendant of
S.Ml 1 II I'liunias Smith, who settled early
at iiast Haven, Connecticut, re-
sided at North Haven, Connecticut, and was
for many years town treasurer and a promi-
nent citizen. 'I'homas Smith married, in H)lj2,
Elizabeth, only dau},diter of luhvard I'atler-
son. Children: John, horn .March, I'Mi^;
Anna, April i, 1005; Infant, born and died
iWj/; John, born June 14, U)69; 'Ihomas,
Au,L;uit. i'>7i ; Thomas, Jainiary 31, 1O73;
Klizabeth, June II, 107O; Joanna, December
17. i<)78; Samuel, May 24, 1081 ; Abigail,
Auf^ust 17, 10^3; Lydia, March 24, i(j8o; Jo-
sei)h, 1688; lienjamin, November 21, 1690,
died young.
(11) Henry Hart, son of Ebenezer Smith,
was born in North Haven, Connecticut, in
1828. I'our i,'enerations of the family have
been born there. He was educate<l in the
public schools and learned the trade of machin-
ist, which he followed through his active life.
He is now living at Hartfonl. He married,
November 25. 1S52, Mary llucklcy. horn Jan-
iiarv 4, 1S27, daughter of Aniasa and Mary
(W'etherill) Morgan (sec Morgan \II ).
Chililren : h'rederick H., born November 28,
1834: Herbert Eugene, mentioneil below.
(HI) Dr. Herbert Eugene, son of Henry
Hart Smith, was born at Hartford. Connecti-
cut, ( )ctober 21. 1837. He attended the pub-
lic schooU of his native city, and graduated
from the high school. He then entered the
Sheftielil Scientific ."school of \'ale University
in 187(1 and was graduated with the degree of
Pli.li. in the class of 1879. He was a >tudent
in ^'ale ^^edical School for the year follow-
ing and then entered the .Meilical School of
the Cnivcrsity of I'emisylvania. from which
he was graduated with the degree of M.D. in
1882. He returned to the Vale .Meilical
SchiKil and in June, 1883. was apjiointed lec-
turer in chemistry and in 1883 was chosen
professor of chemistry, being the third to
occupy the chair. The three professors of
this department have taught ninety-seven
years altogether — a most remarkable record of
long and able service. Since 1883 Dr. Smith
has also been dean of the Vale Medical
School. His work in the laboratory and lec-
ture room, and his published contributions to
science have given him a world-witle reputa-
tion and high standing in the scientific world.
Much of his published work has been in con-
nection with the researches and problems of
the Connecticut board of health, of which he
was chemist for a niunber of years. He has
contributed also to various medical societies,
of which he is a member, and to medical pub-
lications. He is a member and was formerly
president of the .New Haven City .Medical
Society ; member of the Connecticut State
.Medical Society, the .\merican Chemical So-
ciety, the .American Society of liiological
Cheini-ts, the .\merican l'h\ siological Society,
the .\merican i'ublic Health .Association, the
Craduates Club of .New Haven and the
United Congregational Church of New Haven.
His home is in New Haven, but he s])ends his
summers at Woodmont, Connecticut. He
married. June 30, 1885, Emily Scull, \y>rn
September 30, i85(), daughter of David D.
Dinnin. Chihlnn: Emily Dinnin, l)orn .No-
vember ID, 1886: ^^arv Morgan, .April 19,
1888; Elizabctli Bernard, Octijher S, 1889;
Emily D. and Mary M. are members of the
class of 1910. V'assar College. Elizabeth M.
is a pupil of the Heminway School of Do-
mestic .Science at IVamingham, Massachu-
setts.
(The Morgan Line).
( 111 ) James Morgan, son of John Morgan
(q. v.), was born in New London, Connecti-
cut. al)out 1680. He married liridget ,
and settled in Preston, Connecticut, where he
died November 7, 1721. Children, horn at
Preston: Samuel, December 16, 1703: James,
June 24. 1707, mentioned bel"W ; Hannah,
September 9, 1708; Rachel. July 19, 1710;
Daniel. .April 16. 1712.
(I\') James (2), son of James (i) Mor-
gan, was born at Preston. June 24, 1707. He
had but one child, Samuel, mentioned below.
(\') Samuel, son of James (2) Morgan,
was born in 1728. He settled in W'aterford,
Connecticut, and died there. January 26, 1825,
aged ninety-six. He marricii Mary ,
who died September 23, 1804, aged eighty-
one. P.oth were buried in the old second
burial L'round at New London. His will was
dated May 9. i8ifi. proved February, 1825.
Children : Samuel, mentioned below : Lydia :
Lucretia. born about 1733; Margaret, about
1733: Louisa, aliout 1737: Bridget. 17^10.
(\'n Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Mor-
gan, was Imrn in 1748. He settled in W'ater-
ford. but probably removed to W'ethersficld.
where he died ^^arch ro. 18 13. aged sixty-
seven. He married Mehitable . who
die<l July 3, 1810. aged *ixty-three. He mar-
ric<l again. He settled in Wyoming, Penn-
>;ylvania. and barely escaped with wife and
infant claughter from the massacre of 1778.
Children: !VIehitable. dicfl in Hartford. No-
vember 24. 183^1 ; Samuel, born 1780: Ciifleon.
settled in X'irginia : .\masa. mentioneil below.
(\"H) .Amasa. son of Sanuiel i 2^ Morijan,
was I)orn July 3. 1786. was drowned at LLirt-
ford. April 2. 1831. He settled in Wethers-
field. He married, .April 22, 1813. ^^arv,
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daughter of Elias Wetherill : she died Octo-
ber 28. 1856, aged sixty-six years. Children:
Eliza Ann, born March 14, 1814. married
Salmon Steele; Chauncey, July 31, 1815,
married Lois Ann Miller and C. M. Lewis;
Lewis, January 17, 1817, married Jeanette
Pinney, Samuel, December 14, 181S, married,
February 13, 1848, Adelia.A. Clark; Harriet,
February 9, 182 1, married E. Boyington and
L. Adams; Justus Rockwell, September 14,
1822, married, November 29, 1843. Henrietta
Judd ; James Henry, May 14. 1825, married,
November 20, 1847, Martha Whitmore ;
Mary Buckley, January 4, 1827. married, No-
vember 25, 1852, Henry H. Smith (see
Smith H) ; Joseph, January 21, 1830.
Rev. Henry Smith, immigrant
SjMITH ancestor, was born in England,
in 1588, near Norfolk. He came
to America in 1636, and settled in Wethers-
field, Connecticut, in 1638. He is thought .to
have married twice, but the name of his first
wife is not known. The name of his second
wife was Dorothy, sister of Rev. John Cotton,
of Boston. He died in 1658, and she married
(second) John Russell, father of Rev. John
Russell, who succeeded Mr. Smith in the pas-
torate' at W'ethersfield, and who, ten years
later, became the first minister at Hadley, and
died May 8, 1690, aged eighty-three. Mrs.
Dorothy (Smith) Russell died at' Hadley in
1694. Chil(h-en of Rev. Henry Smith : Pere-
grine, died unmarried ; daughter, married and
had children ; daughter, married and had
children; Dorothy, born 1636; Samuel
in Wethersfield, 1638, mentioned below; Jo-
anna, W'ethersfield, December 25, 1641 ; Noah,
Wethersfield, February 25, 1643-44; Eliza-
beth, Wethersfield, August 25, 1648.
(H) Samuel, son of Rev. Henry Smith,
was born in Wethersfield, in 1638-39. He
lived at Northampton, Massachusetts, from
1666 until about 1680. He remove; I then to
Hadley, to take care of his mother. The
following, taken from his letter in 1698-99,
refers to his stepfather, John Russell: "But
he was sometimes a little short of ye Charity
which thinketh no Evil, at ye least I was wont
to think so when his Hand was too heavy on
my Shoulders & I remembered ye sweetnesse
& ye Charity of my firste Father, but on ye
whole said he was a Goode jMan & did well
by my Mother & her children & no doubt we
did often try his wit & temper." Samuel
Smith died at Hadley. September 10. 1703,
aged sixty-five. He married Mary, daughter
of James Ensign, the immigrant who was one
of the first settlers of Hartford. Children :
Samuel, deacon ; Sarah, born liefore her
father's removal to Northampton ; Dorothy,
baptized 1667, at Northampton ; Ebenezer
baptized at Northampton, 1668 ; Ichabod, born
at Northampton, January 24, 1670, mentioned
below ; Mary, Northampton, January 19, ^673 ;
James, Northampton, June 12, 1675; Pre-
served, Northampton, August, 1677.
(HI) Deacon Ichabod, son of Samuel
Smith, was born at Northampton, January 24,
1670. He lived in Hadley until about 1699,
and after that in Suffield. He married, about
1692, Mary, daughter of Thomas Huxley, of
Suffield. Children born at Hadley : Child
born February i, died February 13, 1693-94;
Mary, born May 20, 1696. Children born in
Suffield: Hannah, January 21, 1698; Samuel,
November 5, 1700. mentioned below ; Ichabod,
January I, 1708; James, March 15, 1710-11;
Joseph, January i, 1717.
(I\') Samuel (2), son of Deacon Ichabod
Smith, was born November 5, 1700, in Suf-
field, died there August 25, 1767. He mar-
ried Jerusha, daughter of Atherton Mather,
of Suffield, November 8, 1725. She was born
in Windsor, July 18, 1700, and died at the
home of her son. Rev. Cotton Mather Smith,
in Sharon, Connecticut, aged ninety. Chil-
dren : Elizabeth, born November 10. 1726;
Dan, October 25, 1728 ; Cotton IMather, Octo-
ber 15, 1730, mentioned below; Simeon,
(Rev.), August 6, 1733; Paul, September 15,
1736; Jerusha, died young.
(\') Rev. Cotton iMather, son of Samuel
(2) Smith, was born October 15. 173P, in
Sheffield, Connecticut, died in Sharon, 1806.
He graduated from Yale College in 175 1, and
studied divinity with Rev. i\Ir. Woodbridge,
at Hatfield or Hadley. He was ordained and
settled at Sharon. August 28, 1755. He mar-
ried, about 1757, Temperance, widow' of Dr.
^Villiam Gale, of Goshen, New York, and
daughter ,of Rev. William Worthirigton, of
.Saybrook. She was born April 8. 1732, died
June. 1800. Rev. Cotton blather Smith
preached his half-century sermon in Sharon
in 1805, and died there November 27 or 30,
1806. For some months he was chaplain in
the revolutionary army. He was a mission-
ary to the feeble churches in Vermont. He
organized the Vergennes Congregational
Church. September 17, 1793. Children:
Elizabeth, born Tune 29, 1759; Juliana, Feb-
ruary 12. 1761 : Thomas Mather, Januarv 21,
176"?; Governor John Cotton, February 12,
1765, mentioned below; Lucretia, January 20,
1767, died 1773; Mary, February 16. 1769!
(VI) Governor John Cotton, son of Rev.
Cotton Mather Smith, was born in Sharon,
February 12, 176^, died March, 1845. He
graduated from Yale College in 1783. He
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became liciitciiant-yovernur of Conntcticul in
1811, governor in 1813-17. lie wa^ a mem-
ber of the United States congre>s, 1800-0O,
anil was elected fur a fourth term, but rc-
signcil. Was subsequently appointed to a
jutigcshi[j in the supreme court of his state,
l^le was president of the .American ISoard of
iCominissioners for l-'oreign .Missions and of
the -American iJible Society. He married. Oc-
tober, i/Sd, .Margaret, Iwrn in .Amenia in
i;:()<), die<l 1857, daughter of Jacob Kvert-
son, of I'leasaiit \alk\, New York. Mr.
livert>on was descended from a long line of
famous I)utch admirals of that name, as also
from .Admiral DeRuyter. He was a meml)er
of the .New \'ork provincial congres> of 1774-
75. John Cotton Smith was the last gnvernor
of Connecticut under the charter of Charles
the Second.
(\!1) William .Matlier. only child of Cov-
ernor John Cotton Smith, was born in .Sharon,
.August 26, 1787, died .March. 18(14. lie grad-
uated from Vale College in the class of 1S05.
He was educated for the law, but devoted his
life to good works an<l was greatly beloved,
lie coniluctcil a farm anil had extensive real
estate imprests in Sharon, where ho lived, anil
in the state of X'ermont. H? established one
of the first Sunday schools in the United
States and conducted it for fifty years. He
was a noted lay (jrcacher, and in the absence
of the minister occupied the pul])it in the
Sharon church. He ofliciated at many fun-
erals. l*"or more than thirty years he held
services regularly in outlying districts. He
was a failhfid member of the church of which
his grandfather wa> pastor, joining at the
early age of twelve years. He entered col-
lege the s.ame year. He married. 180J. Helen,
born in Colinnbia comity, in 178<>, died May,
i8()7. daughter of (lilbert R. Livingston, of
Reil Hook. .\ew York. Children: John Cot-
ton, born March 21, 1810, graduate of Vale
College in 1830. died unmarried in 1879: Rob-
ert W'orthington. mentiiHied below; (iilbert
Livingston, born May, 18 13. graduate of
Princeton College in 18^^. died December.
■8^5-
(\1H) Rnbert Worthington, son of Wil-
liam .Mather .Smith, was born in .Sharnu. Con-
necticut. May 28. 181 I. died there September
10, 1877. , He was educated in the public
and private schools and in Williams College,
and studied medicine under Dr. Willard Park-
er, of Xew York City, but followed farming
most of his life in his native town. He re-
ceived the degree of M.D. from the Pittsfield
Medical College. He married, in December,
1834, Gertrude L'Estrange. horn at Carmel,
Xew A'ork. September, 181 1, died in Sharon,
.November 2^, 1894, daughter of Daniel and
Gertrude (L'Estrange) liolden. Her mother
was of Huguenot ancestry. Children, lx)rn at
.Sharon: 1. tjilbert Living>ton, mentioned be-
low. 2. Helen Lvertson, .\ugust jj, 1839,
lives with her brother in Shafon, member of
the Daughters of the .American Revolution ;
has written frjr all the leading magazines
under her own name and various noms dc
plume; author of "Colonial Days and Ways,"
published by the Century Company in 1900.
3. W illiam .Mather, born September 30, 1843,
died September 3, 1848. aged five years. 4.
(jertrude I'.oldeii, October 20, 1850, married,
.\pril 20, 1881, Robert Clinton Geer, of Nor-
folk, Connecticut; lives in Xew York City;
children; (iertnide LEstrange Geer; another
child who died young.
(IX) Gilbert Livingston, son of Robert
Worthington Smith, was born in Carmel, Xew
York, December 2<j, 1835. He was eilucaied
in the public scJiools of Sharon and has always
lived in his native town. He has large real
estate interests ami conducts a large farm.
He spends his winters in .New N'ork City,
where he owns the residence built by Dr.
.^imcon Smith, brother of Rev. Cotton Mather
Smith, mentioned above. The house is built
of stone quarried in Sharon, under the super-
visiun of an Italian mason-architect. He is a
member of the .New N'ork branch of the Sons
of the Revolution. His politics have always
been those of the Republican party. He rep-
resented the town in the general assembly in
1878-70, and served on the board of arbitra-
tion and as chairman of the committee on
roails and bridges. I le is unmarrieil.
James Smith, immigrant ances-
S.Miril tor, was born in England. He
came to Massachusetts I'.ay be-
fore Ui},i). when he was located at Weymouth
and was a jiroprietor of that town. He was
admitted a freeman in i'i34. His will was
dated Jinie M), 1^173, proved June 22. \(^~('\
bequeathing to wife Joane ; sons James and
Nathaniel; daughter Hannah Parramorc;
graiuNon James, son of deceased son Joshua.
Children: James. Joshua. Xathaniel. men-
tioned below. Hannah, married (first) J<''hn
26. 1670; Hannah. March 29, i'>87.
(Iin Xathaniel (2). son of Xathaniel (i)
Snell and (second) Parramore.
(II) Xathaniel, son of James Smith, was
born at Weymouth, June 8, 1639. He was ar-
mitted a freeman in 1^)81. He married Ex-
perience and liveil at Weymoulh. Chil-
dren, born at Weymouth; Xathaniel, Septem-
ber 2. 1^75. mentionetl below : John, .\ugust
.Smith, was born at Weymouth, Sciitemlier 2,
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1675. He seems to have lived at Taunton and
Scituate, Massachusetts, and later moved to
Litchfield, Connecticut. His brother, John
Smith, also came to Litchfield. He died in
1725 at Litchfield and administration on his
estate was granted May 11, 1725, to his widow
Ann and son William. Children, mentioned
in probate records : William ; Nathaniel ; Abiel,
married, September 24, 1729, Abigail Pelet ;
Johnson; Stephen, married, January 25, 1732-
33, iNlary Stoddard ; Jacob, mentioned below ;
Jonathan ; Ann ; Elizabeth : E.xperience, mar-
ried B. Horsford ; Sarah ; Mary ; Phebe.
(IV) Jacob, son of Nathaniel (2) Smith,
was born probably as early as 1710. He mar-
ried Elizabeth . Children : Jacob, men-
tioned below ; Rebecca, David ; there were
probably other children.
(V) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (i) Smith,
was born in 1738, died April 14, 1807. He
was a lieutenant in the revolution. He mar-
ried Mary Lewis, who died December 30,
1833, aged eighty-one years. Upon his tomb-
stone in Northfield cemetery, Litchfield, is in-
scribed :
"Oh! Thou great arbiter of Life and Death!
Thy call I follow to the Land L'nknown.
I trust in Thee and know in Whom I trust."
(\T) David, son of Jacob (2) Smith, was
born at Litchfield. He married Anna, daugh-
ter of Benjamin and Mary (Spencer) Bar-
tholomew. Her father was a soldier in the
revolution. Children : Hiram, Charles, Tru-
man, Mary, Benjamin, Samuel, Edward, Dav-
id, James, Anna, married Merritt Clark and
lived in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(VII) David (2), son of David (i) Smith,
was born April 6, 1822,- at Northfield, Litch-
field county, Connecticut, where he attended
the public schools in his youth and learned
the trade of stone mason. At the age of
thirty, in 1852, he came to Meriden, Con-
necticut, where he made his home the re-
mainder of his life. He died there in 1893.
He was a prominent builder and contractor
for many years. His residence was on West
Main street. He was a Republican in politics
and keenly interested in public affairs. He
was active in the teinperance movement and
an earnest advocate of total abstinence. He
was a member of the First Congregational
Church of Meriden. He married, in 1848,
Fidelia, born in 18215, died in 1896, daughter
of Daniel and Ruth "(Hull) Parker, of Meri-
den. Ruth Hull was the daughter of Jesse
Hull, a soldier of the revolution, and his wife
Hannah, who was a daughter of Jehiel Pres-
ton, a sergeant in the revolution. Daniel
Parker's father was a soldier in the revolu-
tion, a British prisoner of war in the prison
ships of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
celebrated their golden wedding, November
22, 1898, surrounded by their surviving chil-
dren and received the congratulations of many
friends. Children: i. Nettie E., married
Julius S. Augur, of Meriden, Connecticut ;
children : Julius Jr., a student in Yale, Agnes
S., and Frank Augur. 2. Frank Daniel, born
June, 1852, married Florence P. Powers ;
they have one child, Edna W. 3. Dr. Edward
\\'ier, mentioned below. 4. Ella Isabel. 5.
Jennie S. 6. Frances Eva, an artist of much
ability, died October 27, 1898. The daughters
are active members of Susan Carrington Clark
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion.
(\TII) Dr. Edward Wier Smith, son of Da-
vid (2) Smith, was born in Meriden, October
17, 1854. He attended the public schools of
Meriden and the Hopkins Grammar School of
New Haven, the oldest school in the state.
He entered Yale College in 1874, gradu-
ating in 1878, a classmate of President Taft,
with the degree of A.B. He then entered the
Yale Medical School, and he then taught school
for a time at Yaleville, Connecticut. He re-
sumed his medical studies at McGill Univer-
sity, Montreal, Canada, and was graduated in
the class of 1882 with the degree of M.D.
During his college course at New Haven he
played on the varsity baseball club and took
part in the games with Harvard, Princeton
and other college teams. He began to prac-
tice medicine in 1882 at Meriden, Connecti-
cut, where he has remained to the present
time. In 1892 he took a course in the Post
Graduate Medical College, New York City.
He is on the medical and surgical staffs of
the Meriden Hospital, a member of the Meri-
den Medical Society, the Connecticut State
Medical Society, the American Academy of
Medicine and of the American Medical Asso-
ciation. He was formerly president of the
New Haven County Medical Society. Dr.
Smith belongs to the First Congregational
Church of Meriden. He is a member also of
Meriden Lodge, No. yy, Free and Accepted
Masons : of St. Elmo Commandery, No. 9,
Knights Templar ; of Keystone Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons, and of the Connecticut So-
ciety, Sons of the American Revolution. He
is a Republican in politics. He inarried, Octo-
ber 14. 1885, Helen B., daughter of Oliver
and Abbie C. (Caldwell) Rice, of Ateriden.
She was born in IMeriden, October 21, 1857.
Children: Marion Rice, born June 26, 1887;
David Parker, May 7, 1889, graduate of Yale
College m 1910; student in Yale jMedical
School.
C'^^.AJLrrC w ^>"( ' ^ ^^L^
CnNNKt TULT
617
Winchcll Smitli, son of Williani
S-NflTII lirown Smitli, a nephew of La])-
tain John Brown, the Abolition-
ist ( M-f I'.ruwn \li, and Xiri^inia (Thrall)
Smith, and j^ranilson of John Smith, was horn
;il ilartfonl. Connecticut. April 5. 1S71. lie
attended the public schools an<l Hartford pub-
lic liii,di school. He took u]) the profession
of actor an<l was in the cast of various com-
panies under the management of Charles
I'rohman fn.m iS<>4 to 1904. He formed a
partiier-hi]) with Arnold Daly in UJ04. in the
production of "Candida" and other plays of
Bernard Shaw. Since iqcKj Mr. Smith has
been a playwright. He has written: "A Red
Stockini;," "Brewster's Millions." "\"ia Wire-
less." "The Fortune Hunter." "Bobby Bur-
nit." "Love Among the Lions," "The Out-
sider." "The Only Son." In jiolitics he is
Republican, in religion he is a Omgregation-
alist. He is a member of The Laml)s. Play-
ers. Greenroom, l-'riars, .Atlantic Yacht clubs,
and (irecnroom Club of I^jndon ; the Incor-
porate' 1 Society of .\uthors, England; the
.American StHriety of Dramatists and Com-
posers.
He married. December 20, 1895, Grace
Spencer, of Pennsylvania, daughter of l-'rank
and .Margaret (Searles) Spencer, of Troy.
.Mr. Smith was named for his father, Wil-
liam llrowu ."^mith. but his nom de plume and
stage name is Winchell.
(The Brown Line).
( I ) Peter Brown, immigrant ancestor, was
born in England and came in the ".Maytlowcr"
with the Plymouth company in iCijo. Me was
unmarried when he came, but within the next
thirteen years had married twice. lie was
admiiteil a freeman in 1^133. .Mary and Mar-
tha Brown, probably his wife and elder daugli-
ter. had divisions of cattle with him in 1627.
It is supposed that his first wife was Martha,
and that .Marv and Priscilla were her daugh-
ters and the two im-ntionetl by Governor Brad-
ford as married in i'>50. In I'^144 the daugh-
ters were placed in the care of their uncle,
John Blown, a leading citizen of Duxbury.
Peter Brown dietl in if>33 before October to,
and his estate was settled by the court, Xo-
vember 11. 1633. .Administration was granted
to the willow Mary. He had several other
children, among whom was Peter, mentioned
below.
(II) Peter (2). son of Peter (i) Brown,
was born in i^>32- He settled at Windsor,
Cotmecticut. and lived to be nearly sixty years
old. He died at Windsor. .March ij. Kxv. leav-
ing an estate of four hundred and nine jiounds
to be ilivided among his thirteen children.
(HI) John, son of Peter (2) Brown, was
iMirn at Windscjr, January 8, i')68, died Feb-
ruary 4, 1728. Married, February 4, 1691,
IClizabeth Loomis, who died Dccenil)er 11,
1723. Children, born at Wirulsor: Elizabeth,
I'ebruary 11, i(fj2; Mary. .September 11,
1^194: .Aim. .SeptemlxT i, itf/t; Hannah. .Au-
gust 24, i<t>)7 : John, mentioned below; Ann,
.August 1, 1702: .Sarah, January 22, 1704 ;
Isaac, March 17, i7(y^M37: Daniel, January
29. i7oS-of>: Mary, .March 8. 171 1; Esther.
^Iarch 17, 1712-13.
(I\ ) Jobn (2), son of John (n Brown,
was born in Windsor, March 11, 1699-1700,
dieil .September 3, 1790. He married, March
14. 1725. Mary Eggleston, who died .August
25. 1789. aged eighty-seven years. He re-
sided at liloomlield. Connecticut. Children:
.Mary, died 1827, ageil nearly one htmdred
years; Captain John, mentioned below; Mar-
gery, June 3, 1731 ; Esther, Septeml>er 3. 1733:
Ezra, Jidy 23, 1738; Hannah. July 1. 17.^9:
Azubah. .March 20. 1740: Hannah. .August 17,
1743; .Sarah. .March 28. 1746.
(\') Captain John (3) Bmwn, son of John
(2) Brown, was Ixirn at Winclsor, Xovember
4, 1728. He removed to what is now Bloom-
field. Connecticut, and thence to West Sims-
bury. He was captain of the Eighth Com-
jiany, Eighteenth Connecticut Regiment, in
177(1, in the revolution and was in the cam-
paign in New York in I77'>. He «lied in the
service, September 3, I77'>. He married,
March 2. 173S. Hannah, daughter of Elijah
and llamiah (Higley) Owen. She died May
18. 1831. aged ninety-one. She was de-
scended from John Owen, of Wimlsor. a
sketch of whom appears in this work. Chil-
dren, born in Simslniry : Hannah, December
24, 1738: .Azubah, May 7. i7rio: Esther.
March 4. 1762; Margery, January 23, 1764;
Lucinda, Xovember 18. 17O3; John, .\ugust
31. I7'>9; Owen, mentioned bel<iw ; Thede,
January 3. 1773; Roxy. May 29. 1773: Abiel,
Xovember 18, 1776 (posthumous).
(\I) (Dwen. son of Captain John (3)
Brown, was born February 16. 1771. His
father died during the revolution leaving the
mother with a large family of young chihiren
in great pt>verty. but the mother lived to sec
most of her children well established in life.
Owen I'rown learned the trade of tanner and
settled first at Xorfolk. Connecticut, after-
ward at Torrington in I7<>7. His farm at Tor-
rington was later called the "John Brown"
place, from the fact that the famous .Aboli-
tionist was l»->rn there. The ilwelling house
was built in i77f>and at last accounts was still
standing, but unoccupied. It was located in
the western part of the town, three miles from
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W'olcottville. on a road seldom traveled. The
farm was pleasantly located, but not up to
the standard of this section, and J\Ir. Brown
doubtless bought it because it was cheap and
adapted to his purpose for a tannery. On a
brook, west of the house, on the north side
of the east and west road he built his tannery
and shoe shop and for six years worked at his
trade. He was a man of keen perception,
good humor and wit. His brother John was
deacon of the church at New Hartford ; Fred-
erick, another brother, was a judge of the
court at Hudson, Ohio. Owen Brown was
strongly religious and was never absent from
church. In 1805 he removed to Hudson, Ohio.
He came back a year or two later on business,
but returned to Hudson soon. He was a
trustee of Oberlin College from 1835 to 1844
and then resigned in consequence of growing
infirmities. He was much esteemed by his
associates for his practical wisdom and staunch
integrity. He was a man of few words, be-
cause a painful habit of stammering made it
almost impossible for him to speak, but every
word was valued. His home was at the seat
of the Western Reserve College. During the
war of 1812 he furnished cattle to the gov-
ernment for the use of troops. He died Mav
8, 1856.
He married, at Simsbury. February 11.
1793, Ruth ]\Iills, born ij/i, daughter of
Gideon and Ruth (Humphrey) Mills, grand-
daughter of Hon. Oliver Humphrey. His
wife died at Hudson in 1808, and he married
(second) Sarah Root. He married (third)
Abi (Abigail) Hinsdale (or Lucy (Drake)
Hinsdale, widow of Harmon). Children of
first wife: Anna Rutli, born July 5. 1798, in
Norfolk ; Captain John, the Abolitionist : Sal-
mon, April 30. 1802 : Oliver Owen, October
26, 1804; Frederick, 1806.
John Smith, immigrant ancestor,
SMITH was born in England and settled
early at Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Besides this John Smith, a John Smith settled
at Boston, a boy in the family of Rev. John
Wilson ; another John Smith, of Boston, was
banished and went to Rhode Island ; a third
was a tailor in Boston. There was a John
Smith, of W'eymouth. in 1638: a Rev. John
Smith at Barnstable ; John Smith, prominent
in Dorchester as- early as 1636; John Smith,
of Lynn, 1636: John Smith, of Salem, 1642;
John Smith, of Hampton, New Hampshire ;
Jolin Smith, of Plymouth. 1633 • ^I'"- John
Smith at Dedham. i(^>yj: John Smith, of Lan-
caster; John Smith, of Taunton, 1639: John
Smith, of Charlestown, 1644. and perhaps
other John Smiths all in Massachusetts before
1650. John Smith, of Ipswich, died there in
1672. He was a commoner and had a share
in Plum Island in 1664. He was a tenant of
Appleton. He married Elizabeth .
Children, born at Ipswich : John, October 29,
1654: Elizabeth, married William Chapman;
\\'illiam, born April 20, 1659, was in King
Philip's war ; Thomas, mentioned below ;
Moriah, February 28, 1664; Ruth. October 6,
1666; Mary, died unmarried, June 24, 1739;
Prudence (twin of Mary), born June II,
1670.
(II) Thomas, son of John Smith, was born
at Ipswich, June 7. 1661. He was one of the
first settlers of Sufifield, Connecticut, having
land granted to him at the second town meet-
ing held November 17. 1682. He was a tan-
ner. He died at Suffield, December 2, 1726.
He married (first) in 1684, Joanna Barber,
who died June 25, 1688; (second) Mary,
daughter of John Younglove, the first minis-
ter of Suffield. Child of first wife : John, born
1688. Children of second wife: Thomas,
Mary, Sarah, Johanna, Eleazer (twin). Ex-
perience (twin). Obedience, Ruth, Hannah.
(III) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i)
Smith, was born at Suffield, August 28. 1690,
died there about 1759. He married Abigail,
daughter of Anthony and Abigail (Holcomb)
Austin. Children, born at Suffield : Thomas,
mentioned below, and John.
(I\") Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)
Smith, was born November 6. 1725, died
about 1814. He married Esther Ball, who
died November 5. 1822, aged eighty-four.
Children, born at Suffield: Thomas, Abigail,
John, mentioned below. Joseph, Alexander
and Esther.
( V ) John ( 2 ) , son of Thomas ( 3 ) Smith,
was born at Feeding Hills, Massachusetts,
June II, 1757, died at Granville. j\Iassachu-
setts, Septem.ber 3, 1835. He was a soldier
in the revolution in 1775. He was a miller
by trade. He married Keziah Pease, of Som-
ers. Connecticut, who died February 11. 1830.
Children: Orsamus, John F.. Zebina, Henry,
George W., Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Pease,
Albert Gallatin, mentioned below, and Mar-
garet Maritta.
(VI) Albert Gallatin, son of John (2)
Smith, was born at Granville. April 30, 1801,
died at Collinsville, May 11, 1871. He at-
tended the public schools and was there edu-
cated. He was a miller for several years at
Broadbrook, East Windsor, Connecticut. He
owned a small place in Granville, IMassachu-
setts, also conducted a boot and shoe business.
He spent his last years in Collinsville with his
children. He married Sarah Harger, of Gran-
ville, born July 5, 1800, died February 11,
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iWi, at lla.st (iianvillc, .\Ia>saclnisetts, daiijih-
tcr of Jod and Tahitlia ( (. oe I Harder. Cliil-
(Ircii : Josciihinc. lienjaniiii l-"., Tiniotliy A.,
I'.i-la, l-'amiif M., Sarah Jane. Saiiuicl Henry,
lames Alhtrt, Mar;,'aret M., Josc]»h Kc-nyoii,
incntiiined liclnw.
(\ll) Jo^cpli Kcnyon, son of All)ert (ial-
latin Sniitli, was horn in Olis, Massachusetts.
January 5. 1^4,^. lie received his early edu-
cation in the schools of East (jranville, Slassa-
chusetts. lie l)ei;aii to work when he was ten
years old and when sixteen "houi^ht his time"
of his father, workini; in summer for various
employers and attendiuf^ the di>trict and hif;li
schools in winter. Me was in northern New
jersey, where he tau^dit school two years.
Then for two years he worked in the L'nited
States armory at Si>rin<,'tield, Massachusetts,
and for three months in the armory at Water-
town. New N'ork. He came to Collinsville,
Connecticut, in i8()5, to work for the Collins
Company as a steel forsjer and continued until
iSjo. when he entered partnershi]) with his
hrother Samuel Henry in the seeil trade at
Aui^iista. New Jersey, continuin;^ one year,
and contimied seven years in \'ir<,nnia. He
owned a plantation of two hundred acres and
larj^'c tracts of wood land in Loudon county,
\'iri,'inia. While in the seed business he
traxeled extensively for the concern and has
heeii in twenty-six states of the Cnion. In
1S.S0 he disposed of his plantation and timber
lands in the south an<l returned to Collins-
ville. I'our years later he came to Winsted,
Connecticut, and has lived there since 1884.
I'or a number of years he was ensajjed in the
Hour ami feed business in Win-ted. but for
the past fourteen years has been in the real
estate business, handlini; farm and suburban
pro])ertics. He is a member of \ illai;e Lodi^e,
1-ree and .Accepted Masons. Collinsville. and
is a ])ast master: member of the Ancient Or-
der of Cnited Workmen. In politics he is a
Rei)ublican.
He married (first! December 6. 1870. .Al-
wilda. daut^hter of James and Sarah J. (Roe)
Shotwell, of Sussex comity. New Jersey. She
died February 2<>, 1882, at Collinsville. Con-
necticut. ai;ed thirt\-hve years. Children, all
born in I.oudoii county, \ir.tjinia: i. James
Albert, born Hecember 29. 187 1 ; assistant
treasurer of the Winsted Savings liank : mar-
ried. May J.V if>oo. Rmma .\. Johnson, of
Winsted; children: Ralph Mather, born Oc-
tober 13. iffO.s : I'aul Samuel. February 22.
\<^y:^. 2. < iracc L.. born November (■>. 1874:
married. June 14. KjoS. Rolla J. Spelman :
child, X'irsjinia Fleanor. born .November 15,
lOCX). ,v Henry Samuel, born Noveml>er 14,
187^1, die<l .March 3. 1897. Mr. Smith mar-
ried (second) February 6, 1884, Anna North
Taylor, tx>rn at Avon, Connecticut, 1851, died
.April 12. 1888. He married (third) October
20, i8«X», Fmogene .A. Hoichkiss, of Nor-
folk. Coimecticut, daufjliter of William and
.Mart^aret (Hamilton) Hotchkiss.
The ancestors of Friend W.
SMITH Smith, one of the representative
men of Mridgeport. active in its
busine-s, political, fraternal and social life,
came from Holland and luv^'and and were
nearly all enj^aj^ed in the ministry.
( I ) Fben Smith, the first of the line herein
recorded, was one of the foremost clerjjymen
of his time, and was one of the orifjinal pro-
moters of Wesleyan L'niversity. Middletcjwn,
Connecticut. He and his brother, James Mat-
thews Smith, were .Methodist circuit riders
and made preachinj.; tours tlirough Connecti-
cut and Massachusetts. Fben Smith was a
delegate to the general conference of his
church for four consecutive sessions. He was
also one of the original i)romoters of Wes-
leyan l'niversity. Midlletown, Connecticut.
(Ill I'rieiid William, son of Fben Smith,
was a clergyman of the Methodist denomina-
tion, ami for a jjcriod ai half a century
preached in various parts of Connecticut and
New \'ork. He married .Mary Esmond. They
had four children : I'riend \\ illiani is the only
son and the only one now living.
(HI) bViend William (2). son of I'riend
William ( I ) ami .Mary (Esmond) Smith, was
born in Kortright, Delaware county. New
York, May 11, 1829. He actpiircd a prac-
tical education in the ])ublic schools of .New
^'ork City and at .\menia Seminary. Dutchess
county, .New York. His greatest delight was
in books and the attainment of knowledge,
and be read history, poetry and scientific books
with especial pleasure. Wishing to earn his
own living, he left school at an early age and
became clerk in a hosiery house in New ^'ork
City at ten dollars per month, .\fter thirteen
years of employment in this and other lines of
business in New York and New Haven, he
came to P.ridgcport in 1849, and has remained
to the present time ( 191 1 I, a period of over
sixty years, and during that tinie has always
been prominent in its affairs. Possessing a
taste anri aptitude for commercial life, he
engaged in the dry goods business in 1849
and continued in the capacity of proprietor
until 185 1, when he entered the employ of E.
I'lirdseye. then the leading dry g(x»ds mer-
chant of r«ridge|)ort. as a fellow clerk with
David Read, who later founded the present
great dry goo.ls house of D. .M. Read & Com-
pany. He remained here until lW>o, a period
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of nine years, when he was made postmaster,
which responsible position he filled satisfac-
torily until 1869, covering the period of the
troublous civil war times, during both terms
of President Lincoln's administrations, and
during the tenure of office the new postoftice
was erected through his instrumentality. Dur-
ing his incumbency of the office of postmaster
he was a member of the state central com-
mittee, chairman of the executive committee
in the city of Bridgeport, and, in fact, one of
the foremost politicians of the community. At
the close of his official service as postmaster,
Mr. Smith entered business and organized the
Forrester Manufacturing Company of Bridge-
port. In 1871 he went to Nevada as a repre-
sentative in the interest of the Connecticut
Silver Mining Company, of which there were
large local interests, and in which capacity
he became familiar with the process of mining
and milling the precious metals. He remained
there until 1873, wdien he resigned his position
and returned to Bridgeport, Connecticut. At
this time the postoffice department was ad-
vertising for a new letter box lock. Mr.
Smith and Mr. Frederick Egge invented to-
gether a lock for which Mr. Smith invented a
key and they were the successful bidders. The
outcome of this success was the organization
in 1874 of the firm of Smith & Egge, now one
of the most prosperous of Bridgeport's con-
cerns. This continued until 1877, when the
firm was incorporated as the Smith & Ec:ge
Manufacturing Company, the new company
buying out the stock of Mr. Egge and he
becoming sunerintendent. The officers of the
firm were: Friend W. Smith, president: War-
ner H. Day, secretary and treasurer. This
continued for many years, when Mr. Day was
succeeded bv Frederick A. Booth, and he was
succeeded by Oliver C. Smith, the present
secretary and treasurer. This concern is well
and favorably known to the United States
government, and for several years they had
the contract for manufacturing all the post-
office mail locks for mail bags in use in the
postal service in the United States : they also
supplied Mexico, Hayti and Chili with mail
locks and keys.
About this time l\Tr. Smitli originated the
system of carrier and office chains for secur-
ing the lock keys and secured orders for the
entire country. The appointment of Mr.
Smith as postmaster had brought him in touch
with many government officials, hence he had
but little trouble in securing the contract from
this government, as well as the foreign coun-
tries above mentioned. He also secured con-
tracts for all the cord fasteners and label cases
and punchers used in the postal service, and
for many _\ears this firm was one of the
largest contractors in the country for furnish-
ing supplies to the mail equipment division of
the post office department of Mexico, Hayti,
Chili, Santa Domingo, as well as the entire
United States, with these articles and other
inventions, and had extensive dealings with
the treasury and navy departments of the
government. There are branch offices in New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis.
The idea of using chain instead of cord for
hanging weights to windows was conceived
by Mr. Smith, and the "Giant"' metal sash
chain introduced by his company is now a
standard article in general use. Throughout
the country for the general trade they manu-
facture a variety of chains, padlocks and sew-
ing-machine hardware and attachments.
In 1891 Mr. Smith visited England and
organized the Automatic Chain Company, in
Birmingham, England, using his methods in
the English market, and also made arrange-
ments for the use of his patents in Germany.
In addition to his achievements in the inven-
tion of many valuable devices used in the
postal service and his responsibility as presi-
dent and owner of such a large concern, Mr.
Smith organized the Bridgeport Deoxydized
Bronze and Metal Company and was its presi-
ilent for a long time.
Mr. Smith's transactions throughout the
many years of his business career Inve been
characterized by the utmost honesty and in-
tegrity, and his business associates and patrons
repose in him the greatest confidence, a fit-
ting testimonial of his character as a man.
He has been active in the councils of the Re-
publican party, representing Fairfield county
in the Republican state committee for several
years, his work therein proving satisfactory to
his constituents and 'the people at large: also
he served as a member of the board of ap-
portionment and taxation of Bridgeport, re-
tiring on account of impaired health. He
enjoys the distinction of being the first man
in Bridgeport to answer the call by the labor-
ing men for the nine-hour-a-day work, which
fact gained for him great popularity, and he
was solicited by the Labor party several times
to act as their nominee for the office of niavor
of the citv. At one Labor Day parade his
photograph, an oil painting, was carried
through the streets. He was grand marshal
of the Grand Army parade, June 5, 1903. and
was presented by this body with a memorial
commemorative of the occasion. Some of his
employees have been with him for a quarter
of a century, a fact which aniplv testifies to
his qualities as an employer. Not onlv in
Bridgeport, but throughout the entire country,
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he is rccognizL'd as a man ut public spirit anil
inlhience, and although he has attained the
ripe age of ciyhiy-two years, he is active ami
clear un many points. The poem which n\i-
pears at the close of this sketch was written
i)y himself on the fifty-seventh amiiversary of
his marriage. It is hut one of a lar).;e num-
ber which Mr. Smith has comjiosed, covering
many subjects. He also contribiUed "'rhe
Uistiiry of the llridgeport l't)st Utifice." which
appeared in the Municipal Register for 1876,
and the article was republished in Orcutt's
"History nf P.ridgeport" in 1SS7. Mr. Smith
was a member iif the reception ct)nniiittec
which greeted Abraham Lincoln upon his visit
to Bridgeport, lie holds meml)ershii) in St.
Johirs Lodge. No. 3, I'ree and .\cce|)ted
Masons, and has passed through all the bodies,
including the Scottish Rite bodies uj) to the
tiiirly-second degree. Though reared a Meth-
oilist. he is now a memi)er and vestryman of
Christ Church (Episcopal). He is a member
and past governor of the Seaside Club, a 'mem-
ber of .\lgon(piin. the Seaside Outing Club,
the National Manufacturers' .Association and
the l!ridge|)ort Ili'-torical and Scientific So-
ciety. He is a director in the City National
liank. He is a trustee of the Mechanics' ami
Farmers' Savings Hank.
Mr. Smith married, February 23, 1^53. in
the old First Methodi-t Church.' to which
church the family formerly bclongetl. the cere-
mony being performed by Mr. Smith's father.
Rev. FrieiKl William Smith, assisted by the
Rev. Edmund S. Jayncs, brother of the late
I5i<hop laynes of the Methodist church. :\n-
gcline .Amelia Weed, Ixirn in the town of
liethcl. May 3. 183^ daughter of Zilpah
Xorthrop and Zcrah Weed. Her fatlier was
a well-to-do farmer and manufacturer, and
her mother came from Ridgcficld : the family
came to Bridgeport between sixty and sixty-
five years ago and Mrs. .Smith live<l there
until her death. The remainder of her fam-
ily died when comparatively young. Children
of Mr. and Mrs. .^mith: i. Friend W. Jr.,
born December 20. 1854 : graduated from
Yale Law .School, 1882. anfl was admitted to
the Fairfield county bar in June. 188.^: he
makes a specialty of patent law and has had
a large number of cases before the Ignited
States circuit court, and has testified as an
expert in many cases in all the courts. FTe
married. November it. 1884. Harriet, dautrh-
ter of Jonathan M. and Sarah Knowlton Mer-
ritt. of Tarrytown. \ew York : children :
Sophia. Tulia and Friend W. (^). 2. Oliver
Cromwell, secretary and treasurer of the
Smith & Esjge Company ^. Charles Esmond,
superintendent of the Smith & Egge Com-
pany; both at home. 4. Maybelle, wife of
Horace H. Jackson, of iSridgeport ; children :
ICsthcr and Doris.
Mrs. Friend William Smith died at her
home. No. Ji2 Lafayeite street, January 21,
lyii, ageil seventy-seven years. >even months.
I'uncral services were conducted by the Rev.
Earnest J. Craft. Interment was iti Moimtain
Grove cemetery. Mrs. .Smith was a woman
of more than ordinary intelligence and one
who had a very active life. .She was very
pniuinent in charitable associations. She was
a member of the l!ridge])(«ri Ladies' Charit-
able Society a!i(l its president milil by reason
of her imjierfcct hearing she deemed it best
to resign the office, but still remained on the
board of managers. I ler personal attention
was always given to visiting of the |>oor and
she dispensed her charities herself. She will
be greatly missed in this direction. Mrs.
Smith became a member of Christ Episcopal
Church ami was confirmed with her husband
under the rectorship of the late Rev. I'.everly
Warner. .\n efficient member of the tlifTcrent
societies of the church, her heli)ing hand will
he much missed.
TO MY WIFE.
Yes, 'tis a long, long time from "Now" —
Fifty and seven years all told —
Since we were pledge l)y marriage vow.
And sc.ilcd that pledge with ring of gold.
'Twas early Spring wlien we were wed.
The birds were see'sing out their males.
The flowers were waking from their beds,
.\i-w life was opening wide its gales.
.Ml well I the many years have passed.
The hour with ns is past eleven.
The happiest day ninst end at List —
God gr.-'nt that ours may end in Heaven.
We're living in the twilight now.
The brilliant colors of the day —
The cold ?nd crimson — graceful bow
.'\nd yield themselves to sober gray.
The evening of the day has come,
.^nd weary lahor greets its close.
.\nd in the peaceful, quiet home.
.■\ waits the hour of sweet repose.
Thankful for blessings we have had.
For health and comfort all along.
So many things to make us glad —
Hopeful, we'll sing our evening song.
And hlended with thpt evening song
Forgiveness for each seeming wrong.
.•\ud when that evening song shall cease.
Both sink to rest in perfect peace.
The stream th.ii liorders "Better-Land"
Is nenr. and we can almost loss
.\ pebble to its waters cleir —
.And s.xin we'll gent'y step across.
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But wlitii the border stream is croscd,
And we have reached the farther shore,
It cannot be ! we are not lost
To all our loved one— evermore.
Death cannot conquer in the strife,
For God is love, and Love has planned
That Death itself shall yield to Life
Love finds its own in "Better-Land."
And ere we leave this world so fair.
The last sweet effort of the mind
Shall be an earnest, ardent prayer.
God bless the loved ones left behind.
John North, the immigrant an-
NORTH cestor, came to New England in
1635 in the ship "Susan and
Ellen," which landed in Boston. He was
then twenty years old. He was one of the
proprietors and first settlers of the town of
Farmington, Connecticut, the first offshoot
from the church of Rev. Thomas Hooker, of
Hartford. Land was granted him there in
1635, and he and his sons, John and Samuel,
were included in the eighty-four original land
owners among whom were divided, in 1676,
the unoccupied lands of Farmington. He and
his wife were members of the Farmington
church, with which they united in 1656. He
married Hannah, daughter of Thomas Bird.
He died in 1691, aged seventy-six years.
Children: John, born 1641 ; Samuel (twin),
1643; Mary (twin), 1643; James, 1647;
Thomas, 1649, mentioned below; Sarah, bap-
tized 1653; Nathaniel, June 29, 1656: Lydia,
May 9, 1658; Joseph, 1660, died 1691.
(H) Thomas, son of John North, was born
in 1649. He was a soldier in the Indian wars,
and received for his services a soldier's grant
of land. In 1669 he married Hannah Newell,
born in 1656, and they settled in the north
part of Farmington, now Avon. He died in
1712, and his wife in 1757. They had chil-
dren, the third of whom was Thomas, men-
tioned below.
(Ill) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i)
North, was born in 1673. He married, in
1698, jMartha. daughter of Isaac and Eliza-
beth (Lathrop) Roys or Royce, of Walling-
ford, Connecticut, and granddaughter of Rev.
John Lathrop, who came from England to
Scituate, JNIassachusetts. in 1634. According
to another authority, he married (first) Mary
Rice or Roys in 1698, and (second) Martha
Roys or Royce, her cousin. He settled in
what is now Berlin, Connecticut, and was
one of the founders of the Congregational
church there, with which he united in 1707.
He was a man of wealth and influence. He
died in 1725. He had eiijht children, among
tliem Tanie^, mentioned below.
(W) James, son of Thomas (2) North, was
born in 1709, died 'in 1758. He married Sarah
Seymour, born December 2, 1712, died Au-
gust 20, 1781. He lived in the Great Swamps
of Kensington, Connecticut. Child, James,
mentioned below.
(V) Hon. James (2), son of James (i)
North, was born January 18, 1748. He mar-
ried (first) September 29, 1774, Rhoda Judd,
who died March 15, 1824, aged seventy. He
married (second) Abi, widow of Captain Jus-
tus Francis, and daughter of Deacon Timothy
Stanley. He went to New Britain and lived
there with John Richards in Stanley Quar-
ter. From the latter he learned the black-
smith's trade. He was an energetic and in-
dustrious man, and prospered. He was. a
magistrate, clerk, treasurer of the Ecclesiasti-
cal and School Society, also school visitor.
He was a representative from the town of
New Britain to the state legislature, and was
for a time captain of the military company.
He was appointed a member of the standing
committee of the church, in 1795, and was
active in securing a new meeting house in
1822. He died May 14, 1833. His widow
died October 3, 1852, aged eighty-seven.
They were buried in the New Britain ceme-
tery. Children : Rhoda, born February 10,
1776: James, December 19, 1777: Seth, Au-
gust 13, 1779 ; Alvin, mentioned below : Henry,
November 3, 1783: Abi, November 21, 1784;
Nancy, January 11, 1787: Henry, September
24, 1789: Orpha, August 12, 1793; William
Burnham, December 6, 1797.
(VI) Alvin, son of Hon. James (2) North,
was born September 4, 1781. He inarried
(first) July 15, 1804, Anna, born January 15,
1783, died June 26, 1815, daughter of Colonel
Gad and Mary ( Judd ) Stanley, and grand-
daughter of Rev. William Burnham, first pas-
tor of the (ireat Swamp Church Society. Her
father. Colonel Stanley, was a representative
in the general asseinbly from Berlin from
1785 to 1804, and was one of the wealthiest
and most influential men in the town. Alvin
North married (second) May i. 1816, Clar-
issa Burnham, born June 7, 1788. daughter
of Judge Oliver Burnham, of Cornwall. He
was a cabinetmaker by trade, but in 1812,
with Seth J. North and Hezekiah \\'hipple,
began the manufacture of silver-plated buckles,
cloak clasps and other similar articles. For
half a century he was an active and energetic
business man of New Britain, and was asso-
ciated at different tiines with Henry Stanley,
Horace Butler and several of his sons. He
was interested in several corporations and
was successful in all his business affairs. He
was a man of sterling worth and integritv and
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was one of tlic oriL,'iiial mcnihcrs, with his
wife, I.S42, of the Soiiih C<int,'rei,'ati(>nal
Church. He was appointed <>n tlie standinj;
committee of the diurch in 1S43. and held
the ofVice imtil his death. Septcmher i, 1865.
Chihhen: ( )irin Stanley. l)orn July 13. 1805.
married Sarah Clark, Iwrn July 18, 1809;
Harriet A., March 5. 1807. died March 4,
iSo<>: Henrietta, Aui,'ii<t ih, 180), died Octo-
ber 5. 1810. Children of second wife: Oliver
Murnham, March 13. 1817. mentioned Ixdnw :
Harriet A.. Septemher 28, 1818: Sarah Roll-
ers, August 28, 1820: Hubert I-ranklin, No-
vemlier ij. 1822, married. 1852. Jane llendrix.
Ixirn May 11, 1825: .Mary Cordelia. July i.
1825: Henrietta Clarissa. September K.. 1829.
( \II ) Oliver I'lUrnham. son of .Mvin .North,
was born .March 13. 1817, in .\ew IJritain.
died ( )ctober 27;. 1803. He became identified
with its industries at an early age. He was
fxr a number of ye;irs associated with his
father in the nianufacture of silver-plated
buckles, clnak clasps, rin,i,"i antl hooks for
men's clothing, and hooks ami eyes for
women'> clothing. Later he i)urchascd Judds"
mills at New liritain and manufactureil knobs,
bits and other articles in that line. In 1852 he
built a larL;er jjlaut, but later this was burned
down, and he renioved to New Haven, where
he Continued in the manufacturing business
until his death. He was one of the learling
citizens of \ew Haven, and a man of wealth
and intluence. He married. May 10, 1843.
.Martha Illizabeth. born June 11. 1823. died
July. i<»n'>, daughter of Jedeiliah and Rliza
( Hollister » Post. Jedediali Post was born
July. 178.8. in Hebron. Connecticut, died in
July, 1866. Kliza (Hollister) Post, daughter
of Rf>swell Hollister, of South Glastonbury,
was biTu December 8, 1797. in South Glas-
tonbury, died July 8. 1838. Children: i.
William llurnham, born June 4, 1844: mar-
rietl ( first ) Elizabeth .\ndrus : ( second ) .\n-
nie I-. Stevens: children of first wife: i. Grace
E.. marrie<l Louis C. Smith : ii. Clara B.. mar-
ried .Arthur .S. .Mien ; iii. Florence C. unmar-
ried : iv. Eleanor. unmarrie<l. 2. George Post,
born June 3. 1849. 3. Edward ^^ill<. born
October. 1832. died in 1871. 4. Ellen .\ugusta,
liorn June 2. i83<): married J. \'. Clawson.
5. John Hollister. born l-'ebruary 18. 1839:
married M;irgucrite I'ulford : children: Cor-
nelia P'.. John II. Jr.. Virginia, h. Mary Rus-
sell. ."September 8. 187 1 : married J. G. Estill,
1803: children: Joe Garner. Wallace, Gordon
North .
(X'llll George Post, son of Oliver Purn-
hani Xorth, was born June 3. 1849. at New
Britain. Connecticut. He wa« educated in the
public schools. He has been connected with
the < '. P.. North Company in various j3ositions
<jf re>|x>nsibility since cr)mpleting V- ' —
tion. and has l)een pre-ideni of tli
tion. Mr. .North is a Re])ublican 1
an<l an Episcopalian in religion. He is a
member of the L'nion League Club and the
Chamber of Commerce. His residence is the
old family mansion at *^)04 Chapel street. He
married. September 4. i87(». .Sarah Margaret
I'ield. of Hamilton. C.inada, daughter of J(»hn
I'ield. Children: 1. .Margaret Eield. born
June 28, 1883; graduate of the New Haven
|iul)lic and high schools an«l of Smith C"ollege.
class of KJ05 : member of the Lawn Club of
New Haven. 2. ( )liver Piurnbam.- January
24. 1883: attended the public school- and
graduated from the Hopkins (iranimar School
of New Haven, where he prepared for col-
lege; graduate of ^'ale College, with degree
of .v. Pi. in 1908: afterward clerk and travel-
ing salesman for his father's concern and
later elected treasurer of the O. It. North
t"oinii:iii\ . of which his father is president.
W
Governor Thomas Welles or
^ Wells, immigrant ancestor, was
born in Essex county, England,
in 1598. His property there was confiscated
for jiolitical reasi')ns. and he came to this
country as secretary of Lords Say and Seal.
He located first in Saybrcnik. alxMit 1636. and
later in Hartford, where he was a magistrate
as early as 1637. and for twenty-two years
altogether, lie was deputy governor in i''>34-
5'^-57-59'' .governor in 1^133-5^. He held
other offices of trust and honor. He dierl
January 14. ir)59-rx5, and was burie<l in ILirt-
ford. He married (first) Elizabeth Hunt,
who died in i^'qo, antl (second) Elizabeth
Eoote. widow of Nathaniel I"i"ite. an<l sister
of [obn Peming. one of the pioneers at
Wethersfield. She died July 28. i(>83. aged
eighty-eight years. He died January 14.
if>39-fK3. Chililren: .\nn. born t'>i9: John.
1621. mentioned below: Rol)ert. 1624, ilied
1(139: Thonias. Ixirn 1627: .Samuel. iri3o;
Sarah. 1(132: Mary, iC>34: Jo-^eph, 1(^37.
(Ill John Wells, son of Governor Thomas
Welles, was Ixirn in England, in i(S2t. and
came over with his parents. He settled in
Saybrook. in i^>3Ci. in Hartforrl soon after-
ward, and in .Stratford. Connecticut, in i(>43.
residing there the rest of his life He was
admitted a freeman at Hartforrl in 1643. He
was a deputy to the general court from Strat-
ford in iC>3'>-37-39 : magistrate at .'^tratford in
1(158. and judge of probate. He was one of
the most prominent citizens. He married, in
1(147, Elizabeth Curtis, sister of William Cur-
tis, of Stratford, and daughter of John Cur-
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tis, one of the leading citizens and first settlers
of that town. She married (second) Jolin
Wilcoxson, and had Hannah, Ehzabeth and
Mary. Children of John Wells: John (2),
born 1648, mentioned below; Thomas; Robert
(twin of Thomas), 1651; Temperance, 1654;
Samuel, 1656; Sarah, September 28, 1659;
Mary, August 29, 1661.
(III) John (2), son of John (i) Wells,
was born in 1648, at Stratford, and died there,
March 24, 1713-14. He married Mary Hol-
lister, daughter of John Hollister. Children,
born at Stratford: Mary, November, 1670.
married Jeremiah Judson ; Sarah, January,
1673-74: . John, 1675-76; Comfort: Joseph,
June 12, 1679: Elizabeth; Robert, September,
16S8; Thomas, mentioned below.
(IV) Deacon Thomas, son of John (2)
Wells, was born at Stratford, in 1690. He
married there, August 31, 1710, Sarah Stiles,
of an old Connecticut family. Children, born
at Stratford: Bathsheba, August 30, 171 1:
Ephraim, November 7, 1712; Comfort, Sep-
tember 15, 1714; Sarah, June 28, 1715;
Thomas, August 20, 1717 ; Gurdon. February
3, 1724; Hezekiah. mentioned below.
(V) Hezekiah, son of Deacon Thomas
W'ells, was born July 12, 1732, at Stratford.
He married Elizabeth Nichols, daughter of
Theophilus Nichols. They removed to Litch-
field, Connecticut, and he died there. Chil-
dren, born at Stratford : Philip, November,
1753; Agur, 1756, mentioned below; Glo-
riana.
(\T) Agur, son of Hezekiah Wells, was
born in Stratford, in 1756. He married, Feb-
ruary 2, 1780, Pixlee, and settled in
Stratford. Children, born in Stratford : Wil-
liam, August I, 1781 ; David, January 18,
1783. mentioned below; Nicholls, June, 1720;
Bettie, November 9, 1786 ; Molly, November
3, 1788: Agur, September 9, 1790.
(VIT) David, son of Agur Wells, was born
at Stratford, January 18, 1783. He appears
to have settled, when a young man, in New-
town. He married . Child : Emory,
mentioned below.
(\'nT) Emory, .son of David Wells, was
born in Newtown. He learned the trade of
shoemaker. In 1841 he moved to Lockport,
New York, where he engaged in the manu-
facture of shoes the rest of his life. He was
a Democrat in politics, a faithful and consis-
tent Episcopalian in religion, and one of the
most honored and highly respected citizens of
the town. He married Maria Gilbert, daugh-
ter of Isaac Gilbert. Children, born at New-
town : Jenette, married Henry Jackson ;
Isaac, settled in Fairfield county : ."Xmbrose
H., mentioned below.
(IX) Ambrose H., son of Emory Wells,
was born in Newtown, March 26, 1837, and
died February 15. 1910. He received his early
education in the public schools of Newtown,
and learned the trade of blacksmith, at which
he worked for three years in North Salem,
New York, when he went to Newtown, then
to \\'oodbury, and, in 1862 to Waterbury, as
foreman of the tube department in the brass
factory of Brown Brothers, a position he held
for a period of nineteen years. He had also
worked previously in a paper mill in New-
town, and as foreman in the paper mill at
Woodbury, Connecticut, and was for two
years in the flour and feed business in Water-
bury. He then began business on his own
account, manufacturing specialties, with one
man and a boy to help him. The business
grew, and in 1890 he built a small shop at
the present location, on the \\'atertown road,
twenty by thirty feet. From time to time
he built additions to provide for his increasing
trade, until now the floor space amounts to
twenty-five thousand square feet, and a force
of one hundred men or more is employed. The
factory is devoted to the manufacture of
seamless brass tubing. The business was in-
corporated in 1907 tmder the name of A. H.
Wells and Company, the stock being held by
himself, wife, five sons and granddaughter.
He was a member of King Solomon Lodge of
Free Masons, of Woodbury and a prominent
member of Union Chapter, and a member of
its board of trustees.
He was, as all his sons were, a charter mem-
ber of the Pequot Club. In politics he was a
Democrat, and he was on the board of finance
of the city of Waterbury for a number of
years, and at the time of his death was a
member of the board of public works. He al-
ways declined to become a candidate for pub-
lic office, though not lacking in interest in
public affairs. All five sons were associated
with him in business. The present officers of
the corporation are : president. Samuel J. ;
vice-president, Franklin .A.; treasurer. George
H. ; secretary and assistant treasurer, Clifford
H. ; superintendent, Edward A. ; these and
[Mrs. -A. H. Wells constitute the board of di-
rectors.
He married, December 17, 1862, Eveline
ludson, daughter of Zenas J. Judson (see
Judson). Children: i. Samuel J., married
(first) Jennie Marie Fischer; (second) Mary
Schulke. who is of German ancestry ; child of
first wife : Aletha M. ; children of second
wife: Martha A.; George T. 2. George H.,
married Flora Davis. 3. Franklin A., mar-
ried Amelia Schulke ; children : Lillian. Emily,
Gertrude and Florence. 4. Edward A., mar-
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I
ricil Cait'liiif luifjcrt. aiul liad vjii I'Mwin.
5. ClilToid C, not niarrie<i.
(llie Jiulson Liiic ».
( I ) William Judson, iiiimigraiit ancestor,
was born in iilnglaiul, \'orksliirc tradition
says, and came to America in 1634, to Con-
cord, Massacluisetts. where lie lived four
years, 'liien he located at Hartford, Ci>nnec-
ticut, and in idyj settled at Stratford, Con-
necticut. Iii> wdl was dated Decemlier 21,
i(rf>i, ant! he ilicd before December 15, if>f}2,
the date of his inventory. His wife Grace
died at New Haven, September 2<), M159, and
he married (second) I'"lizabeth W'ilmot, widow
of llenjanu'n W'ilmot. She died in I-'ebruary,
ir.Sj. He die.l July 2<>, KV'u. Children, born
in l'"n.L;land : |i)>e|)ii. i^tiQ, mentioned below;
Jeremiah ; Joshua.
(H) Lieutenant Jiise|ih. .sou of William
Judsnu. was born in Kupland in 1(119. Ik-
was nineteen years old in i'>39, when the
fnmil\- settled in .Stratford. He married
Sarah. i)roI)al)ly daui;hter i;>f John I'orter, of
W ind-or, October 24, 1(144. and she died
Marcli 16, 1696-97, aged seventy years. He
died October 8, 1690, aged seventy-one years.
Children, born at Stratford: Sarah. March
2. i(>45: John. December 10, i(>47: James,
Ai>ril 24. 1650. mentioned below; (iracc, I'eb-
rnary i. 1(151 ; Joseph. .March 10. i(>54; Han-
nah, December 13, 1057; Esther. .\ui;ust 20,
i6(x); Joshua (twin). October 27, iC)64: Ruth
(twin I, Octol)er 2~. 1664; Phcbe, October 29.
I()<i(i: .Abigail. September 13, 1669.
( III ) Captain James, son of Lieutenant Jo-
seph Judson, was born in Stratford, .\pril
24. i(>30, and died there, February 2^, 1720-
21. He was a large land owner and farmer:
captain of the military company. He married
(first) .\uijust 18, i()8o. Rebecca, (laughter of
Tlionias W'ells. She was born in i(>55. and
died Xovembcr 3. 1717. He married ( sec-
ond I Xovember 20, 1718. .Ann, daughter of
James Steele, of Wethersfield, son of Sam-
uel. She died in 1739. Children, born at
Stratlnrd: Hannah, May 30, 1682-83: Sarah.
February |(>. i()S3-84; Rebecca, February 23,
i(>84-.*<3 : Joseph. J.inuary 10. 1(186: James,
.April I. 1(180: Plubc, October 2, 1691 ; David,
.August 7, i(")3. mentioned below.
( I\') Captain David, son of Captain James
Judson, was Iiorn at Stratford, .August 7.
1(103. He married there, October 29. 1613,
riiclie. I'aughter of Ejihraim Stiles. He died
and was buried in New Haven. Connecticut.
Children, born at ."-Stratford; David. ."Septem-
ber 20. 1713; Phebe. I'ebruary 19, 1717-18;
.Abel. January 31. 1719-20; .Abel, February
13, 1721-22, mentioned below: .Agur. Marcji
2}i, 1724; Ruth, .\pril 26, 1726; Daniel, April
20, 172S; .Sarah, October 17, 1730; .Abncr.
June 9, 1733; Metty, l-'cbruary 12, i7,V>i7.
(\ ) .Abel, son of Captain David Judson,
was born February 13, 1721-22. He mar-
ried. May 7, 1744, Sarah Kurton. Chiblrcn:
John, born 1745: .\bel (2), mentioned belnw;
.Sarah, 1749, married .Aslier Peck; Ruth, 1732.
married Henry l'"airman.
(\h Abel (2), s(in iif Abel (i) Judson.
was born in Stratford, in 1746. He located
in .Wwtown, Fairfield county, where he owned
more than two hundred acres of land on
Mile Hill, now or lately occupied by Daniel
G. Heers. He was a man of inde|>endent
tliought and action, and a ])rominent member
of the .'>andem:uii:(n church. He married .\nn
I'.eunett. ChiMrcn, born at .Newtown: 1.
Ruth, Xovember 17, 1769; married M. Hard.
2. IJennett, February 12, 1771. 3. Hetscy,
Decemlier 22. 1772: married Prindlc.
4. Rufus, December 2j, 1774; removed to
C)hio. 3. .Abner, October 17. 1776; married
(first) Hard: (second) Ju<l-
son ; ( third I
Shejiherd. 6. Abel. 1778.
7. Marcus, February 3, 1780. 8. Laura, De-
cember 8. 178 1 : marriefl Zera HIackman. 9.
Jerusha, September 22, 1783: married b-leazer
Starr. 10. Silence, .April 3, 1783; married
Daniel W'ells, a shoemaker of Zoar. Comiec-
ticut. n. Isaac, February 3, 17S7. 12. Dr.
John, February 11, 1789. 13. Martin. Feb-
ruary 17, 1791 ; a miller at .Sandy Ho<ik, Con-
necticut. 14. Zenas J., mentioned below. 15.
.Anna, January 6. 1793; married Thomas
Seeley, a shoemaker and hotel keeper at New-
town.
i\'H) Zenas J., son of .\bel (2) Judson.
was btirn at Xewtown, March 28, 1793. Me
was a tailor by trade, and lived at Xewtown.
He married Fanny Torrence. The youngest
of their thirteen children. Eveline, married
.\mbrose H. W'ells (see W'ells).
CII) Thomas (2), son of Gov-
WELLS ernor Thomas (i) W'ells fq. v.),
was born in England, about 1627,
died in 1(168 at Hartford. He married. June
23. 1634. Ilaimah, daughter of John Pantry,
one of the original settlers of Hartford. Hi-"
wirlow flied .August 9. ^''>^.^- Children; Re-
becca. 1655: Thomas. 1637: Sarah. 16;'):
Ichalwd, 1660: Samuel, i(^^»2 : Jonathan. i'>'i4:
Joseph. 1667.
(Ill) Thomas (3). son of Thoiuas (2)
W'ells, wa<; born at Hartford in 1637, died
March. KVi;. when a young man. He mar-
ried Mary I'.lackleach. His widow married
("second > John Olcott. \(<it^. and had four
chiblren. She married (third) Captain Jo-
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seph Wadsworth, chief actor in the conceal-
ment of the colonial charter in the famous oak
tree. Children of Thomas and Mary Wells:
Thomas, born October i6. 1690: John, men-
tioned below.
(IV) John, son of Thomas (3) \\'ells, was
born December 16, 1693. He married (first)
September 8, 1715, Elizabeth Chamberlain.
Children, bom at Colchester: Mary, July 15,
1716; John, November 24, 1718. John Wells
married (second) January 29, 1738, Sarah
(Bulkeley) Trumbull, widow of Joseph Trum-
bull and daughter of Rev. John and Patience
(Prentice) Bulkeley. Joseph Trumbull was
brother of Jonathan Trumbull. Rev. John
Bulkeley was son of Rev. Gershom and Sarah
(Chauncey) Bulkeley, grandson of Rev. Peter
Bulkeley, the immigrant, a sketch of whom
appears elsewhere in this work. Sarah
Chauncey was daughter of President Chaun-
cey of Harvard College.
(V) Chauncey, son of John Wells, was
born in Colchester in 1745, died January 26,
1810. He was a taxpayer in his native town
in 1787. He followed farming for his voca-
tion. He married, October 20, 1785, }i[arga-
ret Wise, who died April 20, 1826. Children :
Oliver B.. born June 18. 1786; Eliar, Octo-
ber 7, 1787; Guy, June 6, 1789; Anna, July
10, 1 791: Chauncey, July 30, 1793. mentioned
below; Sally. April 12. 1796; Roxey, June 9,
1799: Bethiah T.. March 23, 1807.
(\T) Chauncey (2), son of Chauncey (1)
Wells, was born in Colchester, July 30, 1793,
died October 25, 1858, and is buried in the
old cemetery at Hartford. He removed to
Hartford and married (first) Hannah King,
February 9, 1826. He married (second) Jan-
uary 6, 1840, Charity Pease. Children of
first wife: i. Anna E., born May 7, 1828;
married, September 19. 1850, J. Watson
White, and removed to Waterbury, Connecti-
cut, about 1850, and died April 30, 1861. 2.
Hannah S., November 20, 1829 : married,
March 17, 1852, Edward L. Caswell and re-
moved to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, about
1854, and died January 8, 1888. 3. Sarah J.,
November 13, 183 1, died August 29, 1872,
unmarried. 4. Chauncey, July 10, 1833, died
June 20. 1838. 5. Alfred, mentioned below.
(VII) Alfred, son of Chauncey (2) Wells,
was born in Hartford, December 21, 1834.
He spent the first sixteen years of his life in
his native town and attended the Hartford
high school. He came to Waterbury in 185 1.
He enlisted November 14, 1862, and entered
the service as lieutenant of Companv A,
Twenty-third Regiment. Connecticut \'olun-
teer Infantry, and was afterward commis-
sioned captain. lie went with his regiment
to reinforce the command of General Banks
in Louisiana. During the siege of Port Hud-
son, the Twenty-third Regiment was sent to
guard the New Orleans & Opelousas railroad
and Captain Wells was stationed at Bayou
Boeuf in charge of a large quantity of gov-
ernment stores. When General Richard Tay-
lor surrounded the place with a superior force
of Confederates and capture became inevit-
able. Captain Wells rendered eil'ective service
in destroying the supplies to prevent their
falling into the hands of the enemy. He
was captured June 24, 1863, and taken to the
Confederate prison at Tyler, Texas, where
he was confined thirteen months. After his
release. Captain Wells returned to Waterbury
and soon engaged in partnership with J. VV.
A\'hite, and after the death of J. W. White
was engaged with L. C. \\''hite, dealer in
papers, strawboard. etc. A wooden factory
was built on Bank street in 1868 and was
destroyed by fire the same year. A brick
factory was immediately built. The firm was
the first to manufacture pulp lined straw-
board. The business grew to large propor-
tions and much of its success was due to the
ability, activity and good judgment of Cap-
tain Wells. Mr. Wells remained in the firm
for twenty years, to the time of his death.
He took a keen interest in politics and in
the alifairs of the city of Waterbury. He
was for a time president of the common coun-
cil. He was a Republican. By nature con-
servative, careful in forming opinions and
cautious in expressing them, he possessed a
great influence in the community and was al-
ways to be found striving for the best things
in the community. In religion he was a Con-
gregationalist. He died July 11, 1886, and
his death was a great loss to the city.
He married, December 23, 1856, Sarah Jen-
nett Caswell, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania,
born April 27, 1833, died October 26, 1904,
daughter of John Nevins Caswell, who was
born in Hartford, February 19, 1802, died
January 4, 1866. He married Martha Lemon,
of Phoenixville. Children: i. Charles Nev-
ins. born at Waterbury, October 4, 1857, died
in Southford, Connecticut, September 11,
1905 ; married, January 18, 1888, Minetta C.
Burton, who died November 7, 1908 ; chil-
dren : i. Alfred, born in Brooklyn, New York,
August 28, 1888 ; ii. Helen Jeannette, born in
Boston, Massachusetts. November 22, 1890:
iii. Frances Bacon, born in New Haven, Con-
necticut, October i. 1896; iv. Jean Elizabeth.
1)nrn in New Haven, October 14, 1900; all of
whom have been living with their father's
sister, Martha C. Wells, at 270 Grove street,
since the death of their mother. 2. Martha C,
7^^^^^^>^ ^ /fr7C'^^^^^<^^/7/'^ M"^
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627
iKjni in W atcrljiirv, January 11, iSfio. resides
at J~o Gruve street, \\'aterl)ur\ .
(V) Thomas (3), mmi uf iJcacon
WELLS Thomas (2) \\ ells ((j. v.i, was
born August 20. 1717. He mar-
ried Sarah Lalxirie. C hiltlren : liathsheba,
borti October 4, 1744; James, .\i)ril 13. 1748;
riidmas. March 2^, ^Jh-'- Sarali, l)ai)ti/ed
November, 1754: Elias. mentioned below.
(\n Elias. son of Thomas (3) Wells, was
born November 30. 175'j. in Slratl'ord. in the
old Wells homestead. He servetl in the revo-
lution. He was by occupation a farmer in
."^iratford. In religion he was an Episcopalian.
He married. August 30, 1781, IVninah Wheel-
er, (."hililren: riathsheba, born October,
1782: I'rania, November 15. 1784: .Sally
Kacliel. I'ebruary 10. 1787; John, October 6.
1781;; Elias. October 19, 1793: Lewis, men-
tioned below.
(\IIi Lewis, son of Elias Wells, was born
ill Stratford, and ba|)tize<I there .\i)ril, 179').
He was a farmer by occupation, imd bought
hi-- first farm near that of his father in Strat-
ford. Later he sold it and removed to Kridge-
port, where he l)ought several lots of land in
I hat ])art which was then .Stratford. He
servetl in the war of 181 2. together with his
brother John, their camp being located where
the locomobile shops now are. In politics he
was a Democrat and always interested in all
town affairs. He died in Stratford. He mar-
ried lletsex . daughter of .^anuiel Wheeler, who
died in Stratford, aged fifty-five years. Chil-
dren: I. Leonard, born May 2, 1829. men-
tioned below. 2. Thomas, unmarried : died in
."stratforil. 3. William IX. born 1835; moved
to Kansas: married (first) Lovey \'. Widgeon
.ind had chiblren: married (second) Emma F.
W oolley and had one child.
(N'llh Leonard, son of Lewis Wells, was
born May 2. 1820. in Stratford. His father
moved to iJridgeport when he was very young,
and he was educated there, in the old Mill
Cireen School, kept by David I'ooth. He has
followed general farming as an occupation all
his life. His farm now stands in tlie city,
and at one time contained about one hun-
ilrcd acres, some of which he has cut up into
building lots and sold. He still keeps his
homestead and a large lot. a part of which is
used as a garden. He was formerly a Demo-
crat and has served as selectman in Strat-
ford. He takes a general interest in all town
nlTairs. He is a member of the ."^ons of the
\merican Revolution. He married, in ."strat-
lord. l-"lizabeth Dougal. daughter of John
Ford, who was a farmer and a well-known
man in Milford. Connecticut. He died in
Lridgeiwrt. Elizabeth D. Lord was born in
.Milford and died in Uridgeiwrt. Giilrlren:
1. Lewis Wheeler, born in Stratford; edu-
caleil there ; now a minister, living in Mills-
bom. Delaware, ()reacliing at St. I 'aid's I'lpis-
copal Church; niarrieil Sarah .\nn Grove;
they had three children, all deceased. 2.
luij.jene I'ord, born in Stratford and cducate<l
there ; civil engineer ; lives in nridgep<jrt with
his father; marrie<l .Mice Wheeler Wells,
daughter of William P. Wells, of Lawrence,
Kansas. 3. I'rank Leonard, resides in East
Hartford, employed with the Hartford Gas
CiHupany ; married Ida May Benedict. The
father, grandfather and great-grandfather of
Leonard Wells were born in the old retl house
in Stratford, which is still standing.
Simon Hinitington. the
lir.Vri.VG'rt ).\ immigrant ancestor, was
Ixjrn in England and
sailed for New England in i«)33 with his
wife and children, but was taken ill anil died
on the voyage of smallpox. His widow, Mar-
garet ( I'.arretl ) Huntington, settled with her
children first at Roxbury. Massachusetts,
where she married (second) i'>35-.V>. Thomas
.^toughton of Dorchester. They removed to
Windsor. Ct)nnecticut. and settled there. Mar-
garet was probaldy born in Norwich, England.
Practically nothing is known of ."^imon Hunt-
ington. Even his name was a mystery to the
early genealogists of the family. Children:
William, settled in Salisbury about if)40;
Thomas, settled in Connecticut; Christopher,
mentioned below ; Simon, settled in Norwich,
Comiecticut : .\nn. mentioned in a letter writ-
ten by Peter I'.arrelt to his sister. Margaret
(Barrett) Huntington.
(H) Christopher, .son of .'^imon and Mar-
garet (Barrett) Huntington, came to New
England witli his mother, and lived at Wind-
sor. He married there in i'i52, Ruth, daugh-
ter of William Riickwell. He removed to
Saybrook, and in the spring of 1660 was one
of the founders of Norwich, and was one of
the patentees of the town in 1665. He died
in 1691. Children: i. Christopher, born 1653;
died at Saybrook. 2. Ruth. Iwrn .\pril 13,
1*153 (pri>bably twin), died young. 3. Ruth,
Ixirn .\pril. 1638, died March 26, 1(181. 4.
Christopher, horn November t. 1660: the first
male child born in Norwich: married (first)
May 26. iTiSi. Sarah .\dgate ; (second) Mrs.
Judith (.'^tevens) Brewster, widow of Jona-
than Brewster, who was great-grandson of
Elder William P.rewster. 5. Thomas, born
March 18. i*/»4. fi. John, March 15, 1^)66,
mentioned below. 7. Susannah. .Xugnst. ifrfiS;
married Captain Samuel Griswold. 8. Lydia,
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August, 1672. 9. Ann, October 25, 1675 ;
married Jonathan Bingham.
(Ill) John, son of Christopher and Ruth
(Rockwell) Huntington, was born in Norwich,
iMarch 15, 1666, and died in 1696. He mar-
ried. December 9, 1687, Abigail Lathrop, born
May. 1668, daughter of Samuel Lathrop and
granddaughter o"f Rev. John Lathrop, the first
minister of Scituate, Massachusetts, who was
imprisoned in London two years and finally
released in 1634. Her father removed to Nor-
wich in 1648, and was constable in 1691 ; chil-
dren : Abigail, born February 19, 16S9: John,
April 20, 1690, mentioned below ; Hannah,
born March 25, 1693-94, married John Hunt ;
Martha and Deborah, twins, born December 9,
1696.
(lY) John (2), son of John (i) and Abi-
gail (Lathrop) Huntington, was born April
20. 1690, and died June 2, 174 — . He removed
to Tolland early in the settlement of that town.
He married in 1723. Thankful Warner, of
Windham, who died July 14, 1739. Children:
John, born February 22, 1726. mentioned be-
low: Thankful, ]\Iarch 16, 1727; Samuel, July
II, 1728, died in the French war: Andrew,
born October i, 1732; Deborah, born May 21,
1736-
(\ ) John (3), son of John (2) and Thank-
ful (Warner) Huntington, was born in Tol-
land. Connecticut, February 22, 1726, and was
accidentally killed by a fall under a cart wheel
on the road from Hartford to Tolland. March
23. 1774. He was a farmer in Tolland, and
married Mehitable Steele, born June 6, 1733.
Children: John, born May 11. 1749; married,
1783. Rebecca Newell; Thankful, born July
23. 1750, died October 29, 1750: Mehitable.
January 24, 1752: twin daughters, born and
died November 15, 1753: Elisha, December
17, 1754: William, September 19, 1757: Heze-
kiah, December 30, 1759, mentioned below:
Deborah, November 21, 1762: Samuel, March
23. 1765. married Sally Howard; Abigail,
March 29, 1767; Ruth, May 12, 1769; Thank-
ful. October 3. 1771 ; ATara. October 27, 1774:
died August 3, 1777.
(VI) Hon. liezekiah Huntington, son of
John (3) and Mehitable (Steele) Huntington,
was born in Tolland, December 30, I7,S9. He
studied law with Gideon Granger of Suffield,
and with John Trumbull, afterwards judge of
the superior court, and was admitted to the
bar at Hartford in 1789. He established him-
self at the practice of law in Suffield in 1790,
and soon attained eminence in his profession.
In 1806 he was appointed by Jefferson attorney
for Connecticut, holding the office until 1829.
He was a member of the general assembly in
several sessions from Alav, 1802, until October
1805. In 1801 he was appointed a commis-
sioner under the bankrupt law of the United
States, and held the office about two years.
In 1813 he removed to Hartford, where he
resided the rest of his hfe. He died in Aliddle-
town. May 2"/, 1842. Mr. Huntington was a
man of great ability and was very popular.
He married, in Suffield, October 5, 1788, Susan
Kent, born September 20, 1768. Children: i.
Henry W., born August 16, 1789; graduate
of Yale 181 1 : married Helen Dunbar. 2. Julia
Ann, born December 10, 1790; married, (Octo-
ber 12, 1814, Leicester King, a merchant of
Bloomfield, Ohio, where she died January 24,
1849; children: i. Henry W. King, born Sep-
tember 24, 1815, died November 21, 1837; ii.
Julia A. King, born November 7, 1817; iii.
Susan H. King, born July 6, 1820, died 1837;
iv. Leicester King, born July 26, 1823 ; v.
David King, born December 24, 1825 ; vi.
Helen D. King, born November 19, 1827 ; vii.
Hezekiah King, born August 3, 1829 ; viii.
Catherine B. King, born July 8. 1832. 3.
Horace Augustus, born May g, 1792; married,
181 7, Maria Evans, and became a merchant in
Natchez, Mississippi, w'here he died of yellow
fever December 9, 1819. 4. Samuel Howard,
born December 14. 1793; mentioned below. 5.
Hezekiah, born October 28, 1795; married
(first), June 26, 1825, Sarah Morgan, who
died April 16, 1847; (second), Catherine B.
Sumner : was a publisher and the president
of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. 6.
Susan Lyman, born January 14, 1798 ; married,
October 21, 1833, Rev. J. B. Cook, a Baptist
minister of Binghamton. New York ; had
Susan Kent Cook, born December 26, 1837.
7. Francis Junius, born December 3. 1802;
married, September i, 1833, Stella Bradley
Bull, daughter of Michael Bull : was a pub-
lisher in Hartford and New York City.
(MI) Hon. Samuel Howard Huntington,
son of Hon. Hezekiah and Susan (Kent)
Huntington, was born in Suffield, December
14, 1793. He graduated from Yale College in
1818, and was admitted to the bar. He began
practice in Hartford, and was successful from
the start. In 1829 he was clerk of the state
senate. He was judge of the county court
and on the establishment of the court of claims
in Washington, District of Columbia, he was
elected the chief clerk. He was for many years
a warden of Trinity Church. He died at his
residence on Summer street, Hartford, Febru-
ary 4, 1880. aged eighty-six years. He had
been a man of remarkably vigorous health
all his life; a man of good habits and warm
hospitality. At the age of eighty-five he
walked erect, with a lighter step than many
voung men. Several weeks before his death
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he wrote an article publislicd in the Hartford
Times, coiiccniinp; the location of a railway
cmssinj;. 'rhoiij^h his health was at the time
failing, the article showed that his luiiul re-
tained its wonted vifjor. He married (first),
October J5. 1825. Catherine H. lirinlev, who
died July 21. 18,^2, aj,a'd twenty-six. dantrhtcr
of (ieorj^e r.rinlcy, of I'.oston. He married
(second), Sarah Blair W'atkinson, who died
April 26, 1876, danj^hter of Robert W'atkin-
sr)n. Children: Catherine I'.rinley. born Janu-
ary I. 1837: Maria Champion, December 27,
rS^S: Robert Uatkinson. December 3. 1S40,
mentioned lielow ; Sanniel. December 17. 1842;
Henry Kent, March 2";^. 1844: Sarah I'.lair and
i;iiz;ii:eth A., twins. November 30, 1847.
Eii/abeth A. married Charles J. Cole ( see Cole
family ).
(\1II) Colonel Robert Watkinsoir Hnnt-
injjton. son of Hon. Samuel H. Himtington,
was iKirn r)ecenil)er 3. 1840. ( )ii the breaking
out of the civil war he was a freshni.nn in
Trinit_\ Collcfjo. He enlisted in (ieiicral Haw-
ley's compan_\-. First Connecticut V'ohniteer
Infantry, ami in September. iST)!, was ap-
|)ointed a lieutenant in the Marine Corjis. He
was in the service continuously until the fall
of i8()<). ( )n June 21. i8<'>4. he was promoted
to the rank of captain. He was senior Marine
Corps oflicer at Samoa, and was on board the
"Trenton." After the destruction of the ships
in the hurricane there of 1887. he was in com-
mand of the marine forces on shore which laid
out the encam|)nie;U. etc. On October 24,
i88«>. he was promoted to major, and February
2. i8i)7. to lieutenant-colonel. Durint; the
Spanish war he was in charge of a battalion
about six hundred and fifty strong. They
sailed on the "Panther." and were encamped
in F'lorida for some time. On reaching Guau-
tanamo Ray. they were landed on Friday. June
10. under cover of a war-ship, and all day
Saturday and until Sunday forenoon the Span-
ish forces on land kejit up a bushwhacking
fight, killing four men and wounding several.
Entrenchments were thrown nj) in sjiite of the
op|)osition of the enemy, their attack lasting a
week, being made chiefly at night. The land-
ing was of great value, and "Camp McCalla,"
as it was named, became famous in American
history. One of the results of the landing was
to secure for the blockading squadron a safe
anchorage and a smoother sheet of water for
coaling. It was an important nuive, executed
with judgment and skill. For meritorious
service. C11I. Huntington was promoted to the
rank of colonel. He was retired from active
service January 10, \cpo. He married (firsts,
Xovember. 1865, Jane Lathrop Trumbull,
great-granddaughter of Jonathan Trumbidl.
She tlieil March 3, i8fi8. He married (sec-
ond) in 1879. Elizabeth S., daughter of Gen-
eral Amiel Whipple, who was killed at the
battle of .\ntictan). Children of first wife:
Robert Watkinson and Rev. Daniel Trumbull,
both further mentioned hereafter. Child of
second wife: F'leanor Sherburne, married Wil-
liam Randall Sayles.
(IX) Rolx-rt W'atkinson Huntington, son
of Colonel Robert W atkinson and Jane I^ith-
rop (Trumbidl) Htmlington, was born in Nor-
wich, Connecticut. NovemlKT 9. i8<V>. In carlj
boyhood, after the death of his mother, he
went to reside with his grandfather. Judge
Sanuiel Howanl Huntington, at Hartfnrd, .tikI
after graduating from the Hartford high
school he entered Yale University, taking his
bachelor's degree with the class of 1889. .\t
Vale he affiliated with several college societies,
inchnling the Scroll and Key. In Novemlier,
1889, be entered the service of the Coiniecticut
General Life Insurante Companv as an errand
boy in the home office at Hartford, and per-
ceiving the possibilities ojien to him he de-
tennined to accept that line cif business as his
life work, fully determined to reach the tt»p
round f>f the ladder ere his ambition should 1k'
satisfied. From the most luunblc post in the
service he rapidly advanced thron>;li the vari-
ous grades, including the exacting |)Osition of
actuary and the highly resi>onsible office of
secretary, and in i<>oi he was chosen presi-
dent of the company, th\is reaching the i;oal of
his ambition in the unusually short period of
twelve years. Twenty years ago tlic assets
of the Connecticut ( ieneral Life Insurance
Company amounteil to $i.9f>o,482.49. its 7302
jwlicies amounted to §9.333,410: January i,
19 10. its assets amounted lo SS.87 1.702. 22,
and its insurance in force to $44,5(18.663.
Mr. Huntington is connected a* director
and trustee with some of the strongest finan-
cial institutions in Hartford. He is a fel-
low of the Actuarial Society of .America ;
is a member of the Ilartfonl Club and the
Hartford Golf Hub: and of Trinity (Protes-
tant Episcopal) Church, of which he is a
vestr\man. In politics he is independent.
In his youth Mr. Huntington maile good
u-^e of his opportunities for an unrestricted
indulgence in manly sports, particularly hunt-
ing and fishing, thereby developing an excep-
tionally strong physic|ue, which has enabled
him to i^reserve intact the buoyancy and
spirit of youth, in spite of the numerous cares
and res[ion-ibiliiie- incumbent upon his posi-
tion.
May 5. 190(1. Mr. Huntington married Miss
Constance .\lton W'illard. of Lexington,
Massachusetts: their children are: Robert
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Watkiiison. born July 2, 1907; Mary Willard,
born March 15, 1909.
(IX) Rev. Daniel Trumbull Hunting-ton,
son of Colonel Robert Watkinson and Jane
Lathrop (Trumbull) Huntington, was born
in Norwich, Connecticut, August 4, 1868. He
was graduated from Yale with the class of
1892, and after studying for a year at the
General Theological Seminary in New York
he entered the Berkeley Divinity School,
Middletown, Connecticut, completing his
course there in 1895. He was ordained a
deacon in June, 1895, and became a priest
of the Protestant Episcopal church in April,
1896. Immediately after his ordination as
deacon he entered the foreign mission service
under the auspices of the Episcopal board,
and in the following September began his
labors at Hankow, Central China. From
February to June, 1896, he was in charge
temporarily of the Boone School at Wuchang,
and was subsequently engaged in mission
work in Shasi, Hsinti and Hankow. He is
now stationed at Ichang.
(Ill) Deacon Christo-
HUNTINGTON pher (2) Huntington,
son of Christopher (i)
Huntington (q. v.), was born November i,
1660, the "first-born male" of Norwich, Con-
necticut. He had a town grant at Norwich
in 1684 and was a prominent citizen of Nor-
wich. He was first townsman (selectman)
in 1 691 -1 705-09, and succeeded Richard
Bushnell as town clerk. From 1695 until
he died he was deacon of the church. He was
a surveyor and an extensive land owner. He
died at Norwich, April 24, 1735. His grave-
stone stands on the brow of the hill ori the
southeast corner of the uptown burying
ground. He married (first), May 26, 1681,
Sarah, born January, 1663, died February,
1705-06, daughter of Deacon Thomas and
Mary (Bushnell) Adgate. Her mother mar-
ried (first) Richard Bushnell. He married
(second) October, 1706, Mrs. Judith (Stev-
ens) Brewster, widow of Jonathan Brewster,
great-grandson of Elder William Brewster.
Children of first wife, born at Norwich :
Ruth, November 28. 1682; Christina, Septem-
ber 12, 1686; Isaac, February 5, 1688, men-
tioned below; Jabez, January 26, 1691 ; Mat-
thew, April 16, 1694; Hezekiah, December
16, 1696; Sarah, January 5, 1699-1700; Jere-
miah, December 15, 1702. Children of second
wife: Judith, September 10, 1707; John,
November 13, 1709; Elizabeth, May 6, 1712;
Jeremiah, December 20, 171 5.
(IV) Isaac, son of Deacon Christopher (2)
Huntington, was born at Norwich, February
5, 1688. He was a prominent member of the
church. He was one of the committee to
labor with the Separates, appointed (Jctober
21, 1726. He succeeded his father as town
clerk, December 6, 1726, and his last entry
as town clerk was a month before his death,
January 9, 1764. He married, February 21,
1715-16, RelDecca, great-granddaughter of
Rev. John Lothrop, of England and Scituate,
^Massachusetts. Children, born at Norwich :
Rebecca, November 17, 1717; Isaac, August
25, 1719; Sarah, April 17, 1721 ; Nehemiah,
January 2, 1722-23; Dorcas, February 23,
1724-25 ; Rebecca, born and died June 6, 1725 ;
Rebecca, born December 4, 1726; Mary, No-
vember 26, 1728; Samuel, March 23, 1731,
died 1737; Joseph, November 15, 1732; Eli-
jah, December 21, 1734; Benjamin, mentioned
below; Abigail, July 29, 1739.
(V) Benjamin, son of Isaac Huntington,
was born at Norwich, February 22, 1736. He
succeeded his father as town clerk and was
succeeded by his son. He was selectman
with Barnabas Huntington, Samuel Tracy and
Elijah Brewster, who called the first revolu-
tionary meeting in Norwich, June 6, 1774.
He married, March 5, 1767, Mary, daughter
of Joseph and Mary (Carew) Brown. She
died April 24, 1777. Children, born at Nor-
wich: Mary, J\Iarch 8, 1768; Philip, men-
tioned below; Alice, IMarch 21, 1773; Daniel,
June 10, 1776.
(VI) Philip, son of Benjamin Huntington,
was born September 26, 1770, died February
4, 1825. He was town clerk from the time
his father died until his own death. He mar-
ried, January 17, 1796, Theophila Grist, who
died November 30, 1806, aged thirty-eight
_vears. Their only child was Benjamin, men-
tioned below.
(VII) Benjamin (2), son of Philip Hunt-
ington, was born at Norwich, April 24, 1798,
died there in ]\Iay, 1881. He was a promi-
nent merchant and was for many years treas-
urer of the Norwich Savings Bank. He suc-
ceeded his father as town clerk and held the
ofiice, until it was removed to the city. He
married, September 30, 1830, Margaretta D.,
born March 29, 1808, daughter of John Web-
ster Perrit, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Children, born at Norwich: i. John Webster
Perrit, July 5, 1831, mentioned below. 2. Son,
born and died March 24, 1833. 3. Margaretta
Dunlap, June 15, 1834, died January 8, 1908.
4. Peletiah Webster, July 2, 1836, mentioned
below. 5. Benjamin Newton, May 21, 1838;
married Sarah J. MacMahon ; had no chil-
dren. 6. Son, born and died February 13,
1840. 7. Sara Leaming, September 8, 1842;
resides at 344 \\'ashington street, Norwich
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Town, in the old Colonel Christuplier Leffing-
wcll house. 8. Thomas Diinlap, July 2(), 1844,
(Jie<l Sc|)tcn)l)er. i8(ii, ai^cd seventeen years, a
sohher in tlie civil war, enlisted in the l-jghth
Connecticut Re)T;inient umler Captain li!d\vard
Marl^nd, now (ieneral Marland, of Norwich;
was taken sick in camp and returned home,
wiiere he diefl two days later. 9. llcnry Clay,
died in infancy.
(\I11 ) juiin Webster Perrit, son of LJenja-
min (2( lluntincjton, was born July 5. 1831.
in Norwich, lie went to California at the
time of the discovery of gold. He married,
in ^'llncaIla. Ore^nn. .Mary .\i)iile,i;ate. They
resided in Salem, ( >re}^<in, where he tlied,
leavinj.; one son, Benjamin, who married Mary
.Miller, of Oregon, and had thirteen children:
i'.enjamin. Welistcr, I'errit. I'hilii]). .Margarel-
ta. McKinley, James, Thomas. .Anna. Sara,
Mary. Ruth and Kaciiel.
(\TI1) Pcletiah \\'cl)stcr. son of Kenjamin
(2) lluntini^fton. was born at .Norwicii. July
2. i8_^6. He is president of the Huntington
National liank of Columbus, Ohio. He mar-
ried (first). Mrs. Jane Deshler Heeson. a
widow; (second) Frances Sollace; (third)
Ida Nothnagel. Giildrcn of first wife: i.
Benjamin, died aged four vcars. 2. Thomas
Dunlap. married and h.id Rachel l.cffini;well.
Constance and Peletiah Welister. 7,. Webster
F'errit. marrieil .\nna and had Jane,
Deshler and Ruth. Children of second wife:
4. Theodore Sollace. married ("irace Lee and
had one child. Theodore. 5. 1-rancis Ro]ies.
married .\deline Clrick and had no children.
6. Baldwin (iwynne. married Maybel Money-
penny, of Columbus, Ohio, and had three chil-
dren : .\iui. Frances Sollace and John Web-
ster Perrit. Children of third wife : ~. FMith.
unmarried. 8. Margaret, unmarried. .\nd
two others died in infancy.
(Ill) Lieutenant Sam-
HCN riN("iT(~>N uel Huntington, son of
Simon Huntington (q.
v.). was born in Norwich. March i. 16(15.
He married there. < Ictobcr 20. i'>8'>. Mary,
daughter of William Clark, of Wethersfielil.
In 1700 he removed to Lebanon, after selling
his house and lot in the former town for a
parsonage. Before his removal he had been
a public man and had held several important
positions. In iTtgj he was appointed con-
stable, and had before this been one of the
townsmen. Ten years after his removal he
was appointed by the citizens of Norwich on
a committee to locate the new meeting house,
about which a serious <lispute had arisen. He
was a large land holder in lK>th Norwich and
Lebanon. His name appears on the list of the
Lebanon church in 1707 and his wife's in
1701. He died there May 10, 1717, and she
< >ctober 5, 1743. Chililren, lj<jrn in Ntjrwich:
Elizabeth, .\i)ril 24, K)88-8y; Samuel, August
j8, ilnji, mentioned below; Caleb, February
8, I<»y3-y4; Mary, October 1, i6y6; Rebecca,
F'cbruary, 1698-99; bom in Lebanon: Sarah,
Ocloljcr 22, 1701; John, May 17, 1706; Si-
mon, .\ugust 15, 1708.
(1\ ) Deacon Samuel (2) Huntington, son
of Lieutenant Samuel ( i ) Huntington, was
born in Norwich, August 28, 1691, He mar-
ried, in Lebanon, December 4, 172J, Hannah,
daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (.Avery)
Metcalf, born January 17, 1702. Her father,
Jonathan Metcalf, was the son of Jonathan
and Hannah (Kenric) Metcalf, of Dedham,
Massachusetts; grandson of Michael an<l
Mary (Fairbanks) Metcalf; and great-grand-
son of Michael and Sarah Metcalf, who were
driven by the persecutions of Bishop Wren,
of Norwich. F.ngland. to lice to .New ilnglanil
in the spring of 16:17. They settled in Ded-
ham. Samuel Huntington was elected deacon
of the Lebanon church. His wife was admit-
ted to the church, .April 25, 1725, and died
in Lebanon. ( ictolK'r 14. 1791. He died in
1784. Children, born in Lebanon: .Samuel,
October 16, 172,^; Mary. June i, 1725; Zer-
viah, July 23, 1727; ( )liver, April 15, 1729;
William, .\ugust 12, 1731, died September 11,
1731; William, August 20, 17.32, mentioned
below; Sybil, February, 1734-35; Fliphalet,
-April 14, 1737; Jonathan, .March 19, 1741;
Eleazer, Mav 9, 1744; Josiali, Novemljer 5,
(\') Captain William Huntington, son of
Deacon Samuel (2) Huntington, was born
August 20, 1732. in Lebanon. He married,
October 2y. 1757, Bcthia Throop, a lineal de-
scendant ot William Scropc, one of the judges
who condemned Charles I., and on fleeing to
this country changed his name to Throop,
She was born in 1738, dierl July 12, 1799.
Her funeral sermon. ])reachcd by the Rev.
Zebulon Fly and published afterwards, bears
testin)iiny to Ikt gre;it piety. Ca(itain William
Huntington was a farmer by occupation, and
a useful and upright man. He livetl in Le-
banon, and died there May 31, 1816. Chil-
dren, horn in Lebanon: Dan, August 9, 1758,
died Se|itember 6. 1758: Rhoda. December 14.
17;<). died December 11. 1764; Marv. .August
18; 1761: Wealthy. April 18. 1763; Rhoda;
William. March 6. 1765: Eunice, January 14,
\~<*): Dan. mentioned below.
(V\) Dan, son of Captain William Hunt-
ington, was born in Lebanon. October it,
1774. He grafluatcd at Yale. 1794. He was
tutor in Williams College from 1794 to 1796,
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and for the next two years tutor in Yale.
From 1797 to 1809 he was pastor of the Con-
gregational church in Litchfield, Connecticut,
and of that in .Middletown, Connecticut, from
1809 to 1816. From the latter town he re-
moved to Hadley, Massachusetts, where he
spent the remainder of his life. Here he did
not settle as pastor but continued to preach.
For a time he supplied a Unitarian congre-
gation and finally became a Unitarian. He
married, January i, 1801, Elizabeth Whiting,
born February 7, 1779, died April 6, 1847,
only daughter of Charles and Elizabeth ( Por-
ter) Phelps, of Hadley. Children : Charles
Phelps, born in Litchfield, JMay 24, 1802, men-
tioned below ; Elizabeth Porter, May 8, 1803 ;
William Pitkin, July 16, 1804; Bethia Throop,
October 7, 1805 : Edward Phelps, April 25,
1807; John Whiting, May 28, 1809; Theophi-
lus Parsons, July 11, 1811 ; Theodore Greg-
son, March 18, 1813; Mary Dwight, April
18, 1815; died young; Catherine Carey, May
8, 1817, died August 15, 1830; Frederic Dan,
May 28, 1819.
(VH) Charles Phelps, son of Dan Himt-
ington, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut,
May 24, 1802. He graduated from Harvard
in 1822. He became a lawyer, attained an
early prominence in his profession, and was
one of the judges of the superior court for
Suffolk county, Massachusetts, He lived for
several years in Northampton, Massachusetts,
and later in Boston. He married (first), Oc-
tober 28, 1827, Helen S., born in Northamp-
ton, August 24. 1806, died Jilarch 30, 1844,
•daughter of Elijah Hunt Mills. He married
(second), June 2, 1847, Ellen Greenough,
born in Boston, March 28, 1814, sister of
the sculptor of that name. Children of first
wife, born in Northampton : Helen Frances,
July 7, 1831 ; Charles Whiting, September 22,
1834; Elijah Hunt Mills, July 22, 1836;
Helen Bethia, July 12, 1838, died July 25,
1839: Mary Elizabeth, March ig, 1840: Ed-
ward Stanton, April 3, 1841, mentioned be-
low; Harriette jNlills, May 18, 1843, clied July
8, 1844; children of second wife: Henrv
Greenough, March 24, 1848; Laura Curtis,
September 15, 1849.
(Vni) Edward Stanton, son of Charles
Phelps Huntington, was born at Northamp-
ton, April 3, 1841. He married, 1869, Julia
A. Pratt, born 1856, daughter of United
States Senator Pratt, of Indiana. He settled
at Logansport, Indiana, and was an agricul-
turist. Later he settled in Quincy, Massa-
chusetts, where he was engaged in literary
pursuits. In politics he was Republican ; in
religion a Freethinker. Child, Charles Pratt,
mentioned below.
(IX) Charles Pratt, son of Edward Stan-
ton Huntington, was born at Logansport, In-
diana, November 22, 1871. He prepared for
college in the famous old Adams Academy
of Quincy, ^Massachusetts, of which the prin-
cipal was Dr. William Everett, son of United
States Senator Edward Everett, of Massa-
chusetts. He entered Harvard College in
1889 and was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in 1893. He continued his
studies abroad and was graduated in 1901
from "'L'Ecole des Beaux Arts" of Paris.
He has since then followed the profession of
architect in New York City. The Spanish
Museum, the American Geographical Build-
ing, the Numismatic Society Building and the
Spanish church are among his creations and
are well known buildings in New York City.
His office is at 18 West Thirty-first street.
New York. He is a member of the Societe
des Beaux Arts, the American Institute of
Architects, the National Geographical So-
ciety, the Harvard Club of New York, the
Players Club of New York and the Municipal
Art Society of New York. In politics he is
independent. He married, i\Iay 5, 1894, in
Florence, Italy, Maude M. Bayly, born in
1872 in India, daughter of General Abingdon
Bayly, of the Royal Artillery, England. Her
mother was Mary (Faunce) Bayly, a native
of Kent, England. They have one child,
\'iv4enne Maude, born April 25, 1902.
Sergeant Francis Nichols, im-
NICHOLS migrant ancestor, was born in
England and was among the
first settlers of Stratford, Connecticut, where
he was living as early as 1639. He had a
military training and belonged to the Horse
Guards of London, it is believed. He was
closely related to Colonel Richard Nicolls, the
first English governor. He owned land in
Southhold, Long Island. His estate was dis-
tributed among his chidren before his death.
He married (second) Anne Wines, daugh-
ter of Barnabas Wines, of Southold. She
married (second) John Etton, of Southold.
His children, born in England, were : Isaac,
mentioned below ; Caleb : John ; Daughter,
married Richard IsUWs ; Anne, mentioned in
the will of her grandfather Wines in 1675,
married Christopher Goings, Jr.
(II) Isaac, son of Francis Nichols, was
born in England; died in 1695, at Stratford,
Connecticut. He was a deputy to the general
assembly several terms. His will was dated
September 28, 1694, proved November 6,
1693. He bequeathed his homestead and
lands to Benjamin, after the death of his
wife, and states that he had given as he was
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^i3
able to his other chiUlrcn. Cliildren, Ix^rii at
Stratford: Mary, T'ebriiary 2. 1O4H, married
kev. Israel Cliauncey ; Sarah. November 1,
1049, married Stephen Burritt; Josiali. Janu-
ary 21), •75.2-53, married Margaret Xicliols;
Isaac, March 12, i/<>4, mentioned belnw;
Jonathan, iJecemlK-r 10, 1655, married Han-
nah Hawkins; ICphraim, Ueceml)er 15, 1O57,
married ICsther llawiey, widow of Ebenezer;
Patience, February 2, iOjo; Temperance,
May 17, i6(>2; Margery. November 30, i<)'j3;
Hcnjamin. February 2, 1666, removed to
Derby; Flizahetii. Iwrn April 2, \6Ci8, married.
July *). i6<ii. Joseph Webb.
(Ill) Isaac (2), son ui Isaac (1) Nichols,
was i)orn March 12, t<>S4- H'-' owned a house
and land at Stratford in 1686. He married
Mary , who died at Stratford, in Kkjo.
He died in i')S<3. Children: I'rancis. born
June 3, 1676; Richard, November 26, 1678,
mentioned l)el"W ; Joseph. November i, 1(180.
(I\'( Kiciiard, son of Isaac (2) Nichols,
was twrn in Stratford. November 26. 1678,
died there September 20, 1736. He married,
June 3, 1702, Comfort Sherman, died l-'ebrn-
ary 1 1, i72(>-27. daughter of Thcophilus Sher-
man, of W'etiierstield. His will was dated
September 2^. 1755. and proved ( ictober 9.
1755. lie left a widow Flizabetli. his second
wife. Children, born at Stratford: Thcophi-
lus. March 31. 1703, see forward; Flijah,
September 3. 170C); Nathaniel, .\i)ril 8. 1708;
Joseph: William: Jerusha. March 2j, 1717,
marrie<l James Walker; Temperance, mar-
ried Joseph Thompson; Comfort, married
Daniel I'.nrritt.
( \' ) Theo]ihilus. son of Richard Nichols,
was l)orn at Stratford. March 31. 1703. and
died there April 7, 1774. He is buried in
the old Stratford burying ground. His will
was d:ited Jainiary 13. 1773. and proved May
9. 1774. His inventory, dated May 2^, 1774,
amounted to two thousand one htmdred and
seventy-nine pounds and seven pence. He
married (first). January 2. 1724. Sarah Cur-
tis, who dieil .Sei)teniber 26. i~fx). aged sixty-
seven, a daughter of Lieutenant Ebenezer
Curtis. He married (second) Mehitable IVet.
who died September 20. 1771. aged about
fifty-two. widow of William Peet. Children
of first wife, born at Stratford: William,
November 10. 1724. lived at Trumbull. Con-
necticut ; Philip. January 3. 1726-27. men-
tioned below: Lucy, December 30. 1728;
Hetty. November 10. 1730; Charity. Novem-
ber. 2. 1732: Lavinia. June 7. 1734: Sarissa.
September 30. 1736: .\nne. May 19. 1738;
Sarah. June. 1743.
(\'I» Philip, son of Theophilus Nich<ils.
was born January 5, 1726-27. at Stratford
and died there May 13, 1807. He was a
man of large influence and held much prop-
erty in land and -shares; for many \ears was
a m.igistrate. He dealt in horses and mules,
cx|Kirting to the West Indies. His will was
dated December 13, 1805, and proved June
9. 1S07. Inventory amounted to £25,123 four
shillings nine pence. He married (first),
(October y, 1753. .Mehitable Peet; (second),
Sejitember 9, 1757. .Mary Prince, who died
May 13, 181 1, aged seventy-seven. They
were members of the Protestant Fpiscopal
church. Children, born at Stratford, by first
wife: William. March 10, 1735, mentioned
below; Philip, September 11, 1756. Children
of second wife, born at Stratford: Mercv,
January 2^^, 1759; Lucy, .\pril 6. 1761; Han-
nah, December 29. 17C2; Mary. May 9, 1765;
Richard, .\ugust 5, 1767; .Sarah, .\ugust 19,
I76»>, married Rev. .Abraham L. Clarke;
Charles Theophilus, July 21, 1771; George
Kneeland. l)eceml)er 15. 1773. died young;
Ceorge Kneeland. December 26, 1776.
(VII) William, son of Philip Nichols, was
born at Stratford. March 10, 1733. and died
at Stratford July 22. 1837. He was buried in
the Pe(|uonnock cemetery. He wa^ a farmer
by occupation and an Episcopalian in religion.
lie married first Edwards; seci>nd.
Huldah Downs, of Redding, Connecticut.
Children of first wife: Sarah, married Isaac
Seeley; Philip, accidentally shot and killed;
Mehitable. married .Asa Bearilsley; Prudence,
marrie<l Captain William (ioiHlsell; Hainiah,
died ( Ictober 2, 1833, aged sixty-seven: .\nna.
married Levi Lyon; Serena, married Abijah
P.eardsley ; Hetsey. married ( first ) George
Remington; (second) Pennoyer. tliil-
dren of second wife: David. 1797; William
Hanfor<l. died January 26, 1838. aged thirty-
nine: Wakeman. i8<ti ; Elam. born |8<12;
Stephen, 1804, mentioned below; Child, died
in infancy: Philip Edwards, died Septcmlwr
26. 1835, a.£;<^d forty-eight.
(VHI) Stephen, son of William Nichols,
was born at Trumbull, formerly .Stratford,
Connecticut. September 16. 1804. His mother
died when he was thirteen years old and he
had to seek a home for himself. He came to
nridgejiort anil live<l with his sister, working
for various farmers. He learned the trade
of shoemaker, following it for twenty years.
but eventually returned to farming. In poli-
tics he was a Whig until the ])arty dissolved,
and afterward he was a Republican. He rep-
resented Pridgeport in the Connecticut gen-
eral assembly in 1878, and was appointed to
the committee on cities and boroughs. He
was for many years a justice of the peace;
was an assessor, and selectman of the town.
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and member of the common council of the
city of Bridgeport. He married, March 4,
1829, EmeHne, daughter of Aaron Beardsley,
of Trumbull. Children : Jane E., died young :
Stephen Marcus, mentioned below.
(IX) Lieutenant Stephen Marcus, son of
Stephen Nichols, was born in Bridgeport,
July 10, 1838, died there July 29, 1870. He
was educated in the public schools of his na-
tive town. He was engaged in the retail
grocery business on Main street, Bridgeport,
both before and after the civil war. Later
he engaged in the crockery business on Wall
street in company with Henry Porter and
was there until he retired. He was first lieu-
tenant of Company D, Twenty-third Connec-
ticut Regiment for one year during the civil
war. In politics he was a Republican. He
was a member of Free and Accepted Masons
of Bridgeport. He married, December 25,
1861, Julia Gorhani Hall, born October 2. 1836,
at Trumbull, daughter of Alanson and Sophia
Shelton (Edwards) Hall. Mrs. Nichols is
living at ']2'j State street, Bridgeport. She
is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church.
Children, born at Bridgeport: i. Lizzie Hall,
February 12, 1863, died March 23, 1891, mar-
ried Swan Brewster ; child, Stephen, died in
infancy, March, 1891. 2. Wilbur Edwards,
born August, 1864: died, unmarried. Alarch I,
The branch of the Nichols
NICHOLS family herein traced is de-
scended from Enos Nichols,
who married Sarah Jennings, of \'irginio. He
settled in the Mountains of Mrginia, but
was driven out by hostile Indians, losing all
his lands and property. He then located near
the New York state line, and later drifted
to Milton, Connecticut, where his death oc-
curred. Among his children was Jeremiah.
see forward.
(II) Jeremiah, son of Enos Nichols, was
born about 1780. He attended the schools
adjacent to his home, and later served an
apprenticeship to the trade of shoemaker,
which line of work he followed throughout
the active years of his life. He was a soldier
in the war of 1812, engaged in the defense
of the coast near Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He married Rachel Squiers. Children : Ste-
phen, see forward ; Samuel, Polly, .\llan,
Sarah.
(III) Stephen, son of Jeremiah Nichols.
was born in 1807 in West Milton, Connecti-
cut, died in West Virginia, 1859. He was
educated in the schools of his native place,
acquiring a practical knowledge which quali-
fied him for the duties of life. He resided
for a time in New York state, then settled
at Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he owned
a meat and provision business, having prior
to that followed the trade of miller. He was
an active and useful citizen, successful in busi-
ness and prominent in temperance work. He
married, Mary Ann Low, liorn in 181 5, died
at Weston, Connecticut, 1843. Children:
George, died at Togus, Maine; had no chil-
dren ; Silvester Van Rensselaer, of whom fur-
ther below.
(IV) Silvester Van Rensselaer, youngest
son of Stephen Nichols, was born at W'eston,
Connecticut, 1841. His boyhood was spent
in attending the district school and assisting
his father. He left home at the age of sixteen
and went west, but returned in i860 and
worked with his uncle, William Piatt, in the
meat business at Bridgeport. At the break-
ing out of the civil war he enlisted in the
Second Connecticut Light Battery and served
for three years, thus demonstrating his loy-
alty and fidelity to his country. At the close
of hostilities he returned to Bridgeport and
again entered the service of his uncle, afore-
mentioned, remaining until 1872, when he
engaged in the market business on his own
account, under the firm name of Nichols &
Lill, butchers, whose shop w'as located on
State street. He sold out his interest in the
business in 1888, but resumed business again
in 1890, establishing a meat market at No. 100
Fairfield avenue, which he conducted for
seven years and then disposed of the same,
and since then devoted his attention to the
real estate business in Bridgeport, continu-
ing until his death. He erected a brick block
on Liberty street and other valuable houses.
He was energetic and enterprising in his
methods, straightforward and honorable in all
his transactions, and thus well merited the
success which attended his efiforts. He served
in the common council of Bridgeport in
1892-93, having been elected on the Repub-
lican ticket, and his religious convictions
were those of the Methodist church. He was
a member of Elias Howe, Jr., Post, No. 3,
Grand Army of the Republic; Pequonnock
Lodge and Stratfield Encampment, also Re-
bekah Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows.
He married (first) Abbie B. Nichols,
born in Stepney, died in 1898, daughter of
Ager Nichols. Married (second) Rebecca
Frances Jenkins, a native of England. (Thil-
dren : Stephen John and Margaret. Mr. Nich-
ols died November 20, 1910. The funeral
services were conducted by the Rev. G. W.
Brown, pastor of the First Methodist Epis-
copal Church. Interment was in Stepney..
5^/e/>/ien J^/. j7r/ioA.
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635
(."'iiKiinl, Massacliiisett-;, was
W lll-.l-.I.ICU the original home ..f the
W lui-kr families in tliis
country. Jnsepli. ( Jliadiah and Tlioinas W'hcclcr
all (Iniihtlcss related, settled there about 1640.
(ieor);e Wheeler, of Concord, and John
Wheeler, of Salishnry, Massachusetts, were
related. Isaac Wheeler, of Charlestown ;
Richard, of Dedham: Thomas, of Salem:
Thomas, of IJoston, an<l Timoth\-, of Water-
town, [)ionecrs I)efore iMio, were prohahly of
the same stock. Timothy removed to Con-
cord. The family is uf ancient Iincflish an-
cestry.
(I) Lieutenant Thomas Wheeler, immi-
grant ancestor, settled early in Concord, lie
came to Fairfield, Connecticut, with the first
settlers, ancl hecame i)rominent there. lie
died at I'airtield and his will, dated January
'•^i. '^>5.?-.S4. proved .\u,!,'ust 23, 1(154, has been
partly destroyed, but the names of some of his
children are leyihlc. He left an estate at Con-
cord to his son Thomas; prtiperty at I'airficld
to John and mentions three daughters. , His
widow's will, .\n;L;ust 21, 1*139. also mentions
son Thomas. He marrieil Ruth .
Children : Thomas : John, mentioned below ;
Hannah, married James liennett ; William :
.'^arah, married Thomas Sherwood: daui,dner.
(II) Ser,!,'eant John, son of Thomas
Wheeler, came to I'airtield. Connecticut, with
his father. a])i)arently in 1644. He owned a
lar.i;e |)art of drover's Hill at I'.lack Rock,
where he resided. In iTjSi he i)aid taxes on
one thousand and ftmr acres of land, and was
the third lari^est tax|)ayer in l-"airtield. He
died early in idr^o, aiul his inventorv, dated
March S, 11)89-90, amounted to one thousand
five hundred and sixty-six pounds. The will
of his widow ( Rlizaheth or Judith) was dated
February ji. 170J-03, i)roved .March 24. The
ages of the children are found in the father's
will in 1^190. whence the dates of birth are
estimated. He was a memtier of the jjeneral
court of Connecticut in 1671-72-74-77. Chil-
dren: Judith, horn i66t : John. ifV)v64:
Elizabeth. i(/^- : Mary. 1671; Rebecca. i('>72 :
Joseph. K>74. mentioned below: Hannah,
1676; .\bii;ail. 16S0: Obatliah. if)82: .\nn,
1(184: Jonathan, 1^)87: David, 1690.
(IIll Joseph, son of Serijeant John
Wheeler, was born in Fairtield in 1674. He
was the ancestor of \icc-I'rcsident Wheeler,
throush his son Joseph. !,Man<lson Josejih,
,j;reat-!^randson Zalmon and his son .\lmon.
father of William .\., vicc-iiresident of the
United States in the Hayes administration.
Joseph resided at I'.lack Rock, I-'airfield. His
will dated March 9, 1758, proved July 20,
1759, mentions his brother David, son Thomas
to care for his widow. I le married Deborah
. Children, iHjrn at I-airlield : Jctsqih.
November 18. i7o<>; Thomas, July 10, 1708;
Esther, .Xupust 1, 1710: Catherine, .November
7. 1712: Ephraim. .March 25, I7i(), mentioned
below; Set!) March j(<, 1721.
(I\ ) Ephraim, son of Joseph Wheeler, was
l)orn at I'airfield, March 23. I7i(». He re-
sided in the northwest part of Tairtield. He
married .Martha ■ . Children, born at
I'airfield, baptized at Creenfield Hill church:
Enos, baptized .November 4, I7.V^; Catherine,
ba|)tized .November 4, 1739; Daniel, baptized
.\u>;ust 4, 1743, mentioned below; ICphraim,
Ixirn .March. t73o: Hannah, born .November
12, 1738: (irace, born June 12, i~f>^.
(\ I Daniel, son (jf l-lphraim Wheeler, was
born at Fairtield and baptizeil .Xuyust 4, 1745.
Children, born at I-'airfield ; I':ilen, .\pril 5,
17(17; Daniel, February 14. 17(18. mentioned
below; Stejihen, December 17, i/(*). .\ccord-
incr '" ll'e census of 1790, Daniel had three
males over sixteen, three untler that age and
five females in his familv.
(\"I) Daniel (2), 'son of Daniel (i)
Wheeler, was born February 14, 1768. at
I'airfield. .\monj; his children was Daniel.
mentioned below.
(\ll) Daniel (.^), nou of Daniel (2)
Wheeler, was born aliout iSoo-io. He was
a farmer in I'airfield. Early in life he fol-
lowed the sea and became a master luariner.
Chiblren, born at I'airfield: Joseph, a brass
molder at .\nsonia, Connecticut: Charles .W-
bert. mentioned below: Sarah, married (first)
Gideon M<irehouse ; (second) Jacob \'an
Dorn ; lives at l^outhiiort : Clarissa, married
( first I Edward Hawkins; (sec<ind) John
Howard Hawkins, his brother; .\dclia. mar-
ried John Wilson, of I'.rid.i;eport.
(\II1) Charles .\lberl. son of Daniel 13)
Wheeler, was born in I'airfield. .March, 1842.
He attended the public schools of his native
town, and worked durintj his boyhood on his
father's farm. He continueil in later life to
follow farmiuiT for an occupation, and is one
of the most firogressivc and pros|x'rous farm-
ers of the town. .\t one time he made a spe-
cialty of raisin,(i onions for the New York
market. He is now engaged in general farm-
ing and has a small dairy. He attends the
Congregational church. He married Sarah
.\nn Raymond, born in 1840. Children, born
at I'airfield: Daniel Clinton. .\|iril 2<). 1871.
a painter living at Southport. three children:
I-Mna Raymond, .^arali I'.ernice and Charles
.Albert, decea.s<M| ; Charles liert. mentioned be-
low ; Eftie Raymond, married Martin I'ludd.
lives at Greenfield: children: Louis Wheeler.
Gladvs ^^^v. Ruin Elizabeth.
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CONNECTICUT
(IX) Charles Bert, son of Charles Albert
Wheeler, was born at Fairfield, Februar\- 15.
1873. He was educated there in the pulilic
schools. He worked on his father's farm un-
til nineteen years old, when he began an ap-
prenticeship in the plumber's trade at Bridge-
port. After working as a journeyman a few
years, he established himself in the plumbing
business in Bridgeport and built up an ex-
cellent business, which he conducted three
years : he then sold out and since has followed
iiis trade. He is a skillful mechanic and has
a reputation for the best work. He built the
house in which he resides on Colorado avenue
from his own plans. In politics he is a Re-
publican, in religion a Universalist. He mar-
ried, April 18, 1900, Addie Harriet, daughter
of Tames L. White, of Bridgeport. Chil-
dren, born at Bridgeport: Lloyd Raymond,
December 8 1902 ; Dorothy Elizabeth, January
I, igo8.
Ephraim (2) Wheeler, son
WHEELER of Ephraim fi) Wheeler (q.
v.), was born at Stratford,
March, 1750. He was a farmer in Stratford
all his life. Children: David, Nathan,_ Na-
thaniel, Silas. Mary, Sarah, Joseph, mentioned
below.
(VI) Joseph, son of Ephraim (2) \Mieeler,
was born at Stratford, died there aged sev-
enty-five years. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of his native town, and followed
farming all his life. He built a house on the
homestead, greatly improved his farm and
became one of the substantial citizens of the
town. He took an active part in public af-
fairs and held various offices of trust and
honor. In religion he was a Methodist and
he was a loyal and faithful member. He
married Betsey Wilcox. Children: i. Eph-
raim, married Eliza Shepard : had five chil-
dren. 2. J\Iary, married Gould Curtis and had
six children. 3. George E., mentioned below.
(VII) George E., son of Joseph Wheeler,
was born April 8, 1829, at Stratford. He at-
tended the public schools and academy, and
during his youth worked on his father's farm.
He has been engaged in farming, in fact, all
his active life, and has one of the best culti-
vated farms in this part of the state. He
has always been interested in public affairs
and public education, has been a constant
reader and student, and is possessed of a
great fund of information and general knowl-
edge. He is a liberal contributor to the
church and charity. He is a Republican in
politics. He commands the respect and confi-
dence of all his townsmen. He married,
March 28. 1863, Juliana Miller, born March
20, 1837, at Hartland, Connecticut. Children:
I. Mary Jane, born July 26, 1864: married
l*'i-ank E. Baldwin, a carpenter by trade at
Xicliols, Connecticut: children: Claire, Ber-
nard and Rupert Baldwin. 2. Lina Georgia,
born June 17, 1869, died May 19, 1907 ; mar-
ried Newton J. Reed, born at Newtown, Con-
necticut, a merchant at Stratford ; children :
Elliot and Ruby. 3. Joseph M., born March,
1874: married Nettie Cook: children: Pearl
R. and George Everett. Giles Harry Miller,
father of Mrs. Wheeler, was born at Hart-
land ; was a farmer ; married Lucy Grimes.
He was a son of Solomon and Lydia Miller,
of Hartland : the former was a farmer and
Methodist minister.
Moses \Mieeler. immigrant
WHEELER ancestor, was born in Eng-
land, very likely in the coun-
ty of Kent, in 1598. The Wheeler family had
lived here for over four hundred years. He
sailed from London in 1638, and settled in
the New Haven colony. He was among the
first to receive an allotment in that colony.
Here he married Miriam Hawley, sister of
Joseph Hawley, one of the first settlers in
the colony, and a very prominent man. He
was expelled from the colony in 1648 because
of a slight infringement of one of the Blue
Laws, for which the colony was noted. Ac-
cording to tradition he had been away for sev-
eral months, and returned on a Sunday. For-
getting the "Blue Laws" in his joy at his
return, he kissed his wife and children, and
was expelled by the authorities when they
learned of it. He then joined the little settle-
ment of Stratford, and purchased here a home
from the Indians on the shore, near what is
now known as Sandy Hollow. He afterwards
bought a large piece of land in the upper part
of the town, extending from the river to some
distance above the site of the present New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad. He
was a ship carpenter, and kept a farm for
himself. He was given permission by the
general court to keep a ferry at Stratford,
which he already had established. Seventeen
years after its establishment, the town leased
the ferry to him with thirty or forty acres of
upland adjoining it. for twenty-one years,
without tax or rate except sixpence per an-
num. The inhabitants were "to be ferried
over for one half penny per person and two
pence for horse or beast." The town agreed
to pay for any improvements he had made if
he should leave it at the expiration of his
lease. His son's will, proved January 23,
1724-25, shows that he received the ferry from
his father Moses, and left it to his own son
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637
Elnathan. mi it rc-mainod in the lamilv at least
over line luindrcd years, lie disposed of most
of his land to his sons ten years before Ills
death. He owned ninch land, and was one of
the most iirominent men uf the town. Ik-
was a stron.tc. ixiwerful man, of whom the In-
dian^ are said to have sttxid in mortal terror.
He returned to Knyland in 1065, at the time
of the "Great l'laf,'iic." and so did not remain
loiifi, hut returned afjain to Stratford. He
died January 15, i(k>*<, the tirst white man of
one hundred _\e.ir> who had liveil in .\'ew I'"ng-
land. He is jjuried in the old Lontjregational
church at Stratford. .\ rouijli stone, cut
from the rocks at his home>tead, marks his
j;rave, with the inscription : "Moses Wheeler.
.-Xj^ed 100, Dyed Jan. 15th. i^^S." His will
wa> proved l'"ehruary 19, 1(198. and after dis-
piiNint; of his real and |)ersiin:il pro]ierty cjen-
erally, he says: "I ;.;ive to my dautjhter Mir-
iam two ])ewter dishes, to my son Moses, his
wife, ye pewter platter, and to my flaui^hter
.Mary, a bras kitle liouhliui; ten to twelve gal-
li.n-, the .Miridi^cment of the Marter Uix)kc,
and .Mr. I'.rooks His Devices of Satan, and
t'l [•"iizaheth ye wife of my son Samuel, ye
fjreat kitle, and to Mr. Israel Chauncey twen-
ty shillings in silver." Jane, a sister of Moses
Wheeler, also came over to .\merica with
him. and married Rev. Adam I'llakeman. the
tirM clertjyman of the Church in Enijland in
Stratford, .^he was two years youni,'er than
her hrothcr, having heen horn in \(X)0. .She
died in 1674. She married (second) Jacob
Walker, son of Roiiert Walker, and brother of
Rev. Zachariah Walker, ])astor of the Con-
gregational church in Stratford. The Rev.
.-\dain r.lakeman was rector of the church
fn-m 1(1.^9 to \(>(>',. One of his sons married
Flizabeth, daughter of .Moses Wheeler. Chil-
dren : I. Elizalieth, married (first) Samuel
Pilakeman. and ( second I Jacob Walker ; she
wa- grandniotlur of (ieneral David Woostcr.
2. Miriam, married James I'.lakeman. and was
the UK^ther ancestur cf .nil thuse named I'.lakc-
man or lUackiDan in the inwns of llimting-
ton, ^^l>nroe and Newtown. 3. Samuel, left
no children. 4. Moses, ancestor of many ])eo-
ple. mentioned below. 5. Mary, married
(tirst) Samuel I'airchild, and (second) I'.en-
jamin lieacli. (>. Joaima. died in i(k)4. un-
married.
(II) Moses (2). son of Mo>es (i)
Wheeler, was Ixirn at Stratford, July 5, i^>5'-
He inherited the ferry from his father, to-
gether with the homestead. He removeil the
Stone house which his lather huilt, and replaced
It with a wooden house, which was standing
until .May 12. i8<>i, when it was burned down.
He was a farmer, as well as ferrvman. He
died January 30, 1724. and is buried bcsicle
his father, with a similar headstone, evidently
from the same place. The inscription says:
"Here I^ys The I'.ody of Mr. Moses Wheeler
Who Departed This Life Jan. The 30th.
1724, in 1 he 74th. Year of His .\ge." He
was one of the wealthy men of Sti^ford. as
his estate is inventoried at one thousan<l four
hundred and sixty-three iM)und> five shillings
si.x jiencc. He becpieathed to his wife five
pounds above their mar-' i-menl : to
his son James forty \vi< his sons
.Nathan and Robert anii :i r, and to
his grandchildren. His xm LInathan was
made his executor, and he left t" hi?Ti all hi*
lands, w ith the ferry, and all
and personal estate. He
daughter of Caleb N'icholls, ( k ; ,, ... . ., ,.
C'hildren: .Moses, mentioned liel>.)w; Lalcb;
Sarah: Nathan or MInathan : .Samuel; James;
Robert ; Elizabeth.
Sergeant I'rancis Nicholls, grandfather of
.^arah (Nicholls) Wheeler, came from Eng-
land in 1635. and was in Slratfonl in 1(139
among the first settlers. He was closely re-
lated to Colonel Sir Richard Nichols, the first
English governor of New York, who estab-
lished the first Episco|)al church in .New York,
and who, under the command of James, Duke
of ^'ork, commanded the fleet that toik New
Netherlands from the Dutch in ifWuj and
named the place New York, l-rancis Nicholls
was a military man in England, and was a
member of the famous regiment of Horse
(Kiards in London, but the title of sergeant
was conferred on him at Stratford. He was
a member and comnumicam of the Church
of luigland. and the ancestor of a pious,
wealthy, distinguished family of Stratford.
His son, Caleb, married .\nna. daughter of
Andrew Ward, of Fairfield, and died in i(»iO.
He was the father of Sarah, who married
Moses Wheeler.
(HI) Moses (3), son of Moses (2)
Wheeler, was born July 8, 1675. He mar-
ried (first) Ruth ISouton. in Decemlwr, 1(198.
He married (second) Mercy I.attin. widow of
Thomas Lattin and daughter f>f Henry Wake-
Ivn. Chililren. by first wife: Elnathan. men-
tioned below : N.ithaniel. drowned at the ferry.
(I\) Deacon Elnathan, son of Moses (3)
Wheeler, was born January 31, 1703. died
March 14. 1761. He married, December 8.
1726. .Martha, daughter of David and Martha
( lllagge) De Forest. His estate was in-
ventoried at one thousand six hundred and
nineteen jounds eleven shillings one pence,
and included "one nc.;n> man. Will.. 30 pounds,
twelve Knee T.uckles, a part of a set of china
dishes, 4 P.iblcs and a nunilKr of Ixioks."
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CONNECTICUT
The De Forest family first appears in Avesne,
France, where from 1559 a Spanish garrison
was kept for many years so that any one of
Protestant faith was'cruelly persecuted. Here
the De Forest and other famihes embraced
the foreign doctrine, and successive persecu-
tions compelled the removal of their family
to Le Couteau, to Ledau, and to Leyden. In
1606 in Leyden four brothers were living,
Jean, Jesse, Michel, and Girard De Forest,
and a "sister Jeanne. Jesse, the ancestor of
the Stratford" Wheelers, married at Leyden.
Marie du.Cloux. Soon after the Plymouth
Pilgrims removed from Leyden, he and others
left Holland, and planned to settle in Virginia.
This plan was not carried out, and in 1623
he joineil an expedition for the conquest of
Brazil, where he died in 1624, very likely at
San Salvador. His son Isaac sailed with a
brother for New Netherland, October i. 1636.
in the yacht "Rensselaerwick." He married
at New Netherland. June g. 1641, Sarah,
daughter of Philip and Susanna (du Chiney )
du Trieux. who were Walloons of the earli-
est migration. David, son of Isaac, married,
1696, ;\Iartha. daughter of Samuel Blagge,
of New York, who was the son of Captain
Benjamin Blagge. David came with his wife
to Stratford, where they "covenanted with the
Church,'" August 7, 1697. He was a glazier
by trade, and died April 20. 1721. Martha,
daughter of David and Martha (Blagge) De
Forest, was born April 13. 1700, married
Deacon Elnathan Wheeler, and their children
were : Ruth. Martha, Sarah, Nathaniel, Eliz-
abeth, Marv. Elnathan. mentioned below. Eu-
nice
(V) Elnathan (2). son of Deacon Elnathan
(1) Wheeler, was born May 20. 1740. Pie
married, January 26, 1765, Charity, daughter
of Stephen Frost, son of Joseph Frost, of
Charlestown, Massachusetts. She was born
in 1740. Her sister Esther married Solomon
Plant, father of David Plant, lieutenant-gov-
ernor of the state of Connecticut from 1823
to 1827, and a member of congress from 1827
to 1829, one of the most influential men of
his day in political circles. Elnathan Wheeler
lived on the Wheeler homestead which he in-
inherited from his father. He also was a
farmer as his ancestors had been. The occu-
pancy of the ferry had passed out of the fam-
ily by this time, and in 1813, when the first
bridge was built over the Housatonic river.
between Stratford and Milford. the custom
of a ferry was al^olished. He was a firm, up-
right man. very much res]iected by his asso-
ciates He owned much land, for he gave
much to his sons. His eldest son Elnathan
was given a large farm at Harvey's Farm, a
short di'itance north of his own home. Elisha
was gi\en a farm adjoining his father's on the
north. To Reuben he gave a farm in Putney,
in the northern part of town. At his death,
I-'ebruarv 14, 1809, he left the Wheeler home-
stead to his youngest son Stephen. His wife
survived him several years, and after his
death lived at the homestead with her son
Stephen. She died March 6. 1816. Children:
Elnathan, born March 5. 1766, died Novem-
ber I, 1805; Charity. July 8, 1769, died 1797,
unmarried : Elisha. July 26. 1772, mentioned
below: Reuben, July i,' 1775: Ruth, ]\Iay 15,
1780: Stephen, March i, 1782.
(VI) Elisha, son of Elnathan (2) Wheeler,
was born July 26, 1772, died May 5, 1853.
He married Dorothy, born in 1776, died Janu-
ary 12, 1847, daughter of Ezra Birdseye, of
Oronoque, and granddaughter of Rev. Na-
than Birdseye, who preached a sermon in the
Congregational church in Stratford on his
one hundredth birthday. His tombstone bears
the inscription : "Sacred to the Memory of
the Rev. Nathan Birdseye, A. M. He was
Born August 19th. 1714. Graduated at Yale
College in 1736, Ordained at \\'est Haven,
1742. Dismissed and Recommended by the
Consociation 1758 and Departed This Life
January 28th. 1818. Aged 103 Years. 5
"Months and 9 Days. The Memory of the Just
is Blessed." Children: i. George, born at
Stratford in 1800, died July 16, 1835 : mar-
ried Betsey C. Booth, of Stratford, October
23, 1829; children: Lucy Birdseye, September
4, 1830. Mary Curtiss, DecemlDer 26. 1831,
died July 29, 1835, George Birdseye. June 6.
1S35. married and removed to Kansas City.
2. Ralph, born 1807: married (first) Eliza-
beth Gall, of Hudson, New York : child, Eli-
sha, deceased ; married ( second ) Mary
: children: Phebe, married, and Wil-
liam, who went west and settled. 3. Ezra,
mentioned below.
(MI) Ezra, son of Elisha \\'hecler. was
lii-)rn in Stratford. November 9, 1809, died in
New 'S'ork City. December 18, 1885. ^\'hen
quite young he went to New York City,
where he engaged in business in which he was
very successful. He amassed a fortune and
retired some years prior to his death. He
married (first) Caroline Darrow, of New
York City. He married (second) Celia Vis-
clier, of Albany, New York. He married
(third) Emily Curtiss. Children by first wife:
I. Sarah Ellen, married Dr. Walter de For-
est Fay. of New York Cit}-. now deceased :
she resides in Stratford. 2. Caroline, resides
in New York City. Children of second wi f e :
3. John \'ischer, deceased, was a resident of
New York. 4. Celia Vischer, deceased. Chil-
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639
«lrtii '<\ tliird wile: 5. l-jiiily dirties, In )rii
i85_>. <lic-<l .\ii^,'ii-t jK 1S7J. ' (). Artlnir <le
I'Orot, mcntii'iHil hclnw. 7. Laura, makfs
licr lionic willi Arthur dt- I'i>ro>t Wlu-clcr. 8.
Waller, resides in Strattonl. 9. lulward. died
in infancy.
(\'III) .Arthur dc l-'orest, son of l-'zra
Wheeler, was Ixjrn in .\'ew York City, Janu-
ary 3, 1835. lie was educated there in the
|)ul)hc scliciols. and was eni,'ai;ed in l)usiness
with his lather initil his retirement, since
wliich time lie has made his home in Stratfntd.
and is a well-known and highly esteemed citi-
zen. He is a meniher of Christ Episcopal
Church, in which he has served as vestryman
for .1 mimher of years. He married. Sei)tem-
her 17. 1S84, Carrie May |)uiili.ir, liorn at
I'hiladelphia, Pennsylvania, .March 10, 1S57,
(laui,diter of ( ieorj^e Curtis and Jane ( Shel-
toii I Dunhar. Her father was horn in .\h-
in^'ton anil died in Hartford. (,'Iiildren : Dor-
othy I'.irdseye, horn July (>. 1SS5: F.mily Dun-
har. .March 3. i.Scji.
Deacon I'aul I'eck, immi;;rant an-
I'l'A'K cestor of this family, was horn, we
are told, in county Kssex, England,
in i<io!>t. He came to I'loston in 1O35 on the
ship "Defense" and remained in I'lOston and
vii-inity until l'',V'- when he went with Rev.
I honias HtHikcr and his party to Hartford
;nul hecamc one oi the founders of that city
and the state of Connecticut. He was a ]iro-
prietor of Hartford in i'>30 an<l hecanie a
Icadinsi citizen. His home was on what is
MOW \\'ashini;ton street not far from the state
capitol. He was deacon of the church from
HtSi until his death, Decemher 2^. 1^195. His
«ill, ilated June 23, \(k)^. was proved January
'.^' i^'05-9'>. His inventory amounted to five
hundred and thirty-six jiounds five shillinijs.
He l>e<p!eatheil to his wife ^^artl^a : children:
I'aul. Joseph. Martha Cornwall. Mary .\n-
drew. Sarah C"lark, Elizaheth How: grand-
-ons: Paul and Henry Peck: son-in-law, John
Shcjiherd : s'a'ifl'laughter. Ruth 1 leach: son-
in-law. John Itouton. ChiMren : i. Paul.
l)orn if^y). 2. Martha. 1^141 : married. June
S. 1663. John Cornwall. 3. h'lizaheth. i''43:
married How. of \\allini,M'ord. 4.
John. Decemher 22. i')43. 3. .Samuel. i''47-
inentioned helow. 6. Joseph. 1630. haptized
Deceml)er 22. 1^)30. 7. Sarah. 1633: married
Thomas Clark, of Ilartford. 8. Hannah.
i<>3f>: married, .May 12, 1680. John Shei)heril.
o. ^^ary, \u\2\ married John .\ndre\v, of
Hartford : died in 1732.
(Hi Samuel, son of Deacon Paul Peck, was
lv>rn in Hartford. Connecticut, in 1^147. He
.settled in West Hartford and lived there until
hi> death. January 10. i<k;<). He marrictl
Elizaheth . Child, Samuel, njcntioncU
hel-.w.
I 111 ) Sanniel (21, son of Samuel ( 1 ) Peck,
was Ikirn in West Hartford, Coimecticut. in
1^172. died l)cceinl)er 9, I7'>5. He settled in
Middletown, now the town of Merlin. Con-
necticut. He married .\hii;ail. daughter of
Joseiih Collier, she died OcIoIkt 28. 1742.
( hildren, liurn at Kensington: i. .Samuel,
January 6, 1701. 2. .Moses, .\pril, 1703. 3.
Isaac. l)orn at Scarborough, .X'oveinher 2,
17CX1. 4. .\l)ijah. Decemher 28. 1707. 5.
/ehulon. Sei)teinher I, 17 1 3, mentioned l>elow.
U. Amos, horn at Kensington, .March 5, 1713.
7. .Miel, l)orn at Kensington. December 28,
1717, died .September i<). 1742. 8. |-'.lislia.
horn at Lynn, July 2}^. 1723: married Mary,
daughtcr'of llewett Strong.
(I\') Zebnlon. son of .Samuel f2) Peck,
was born in .Middletown, Connecticut, Sep-
tember I, 1713, died at iJristol. Connecticut.
January 13, 1793. He married, July 10. 1735.
Mary, d.iughter of Josiah Edwards, iif Easi-
ham|)ton. Long Island: she died .May 2}^, '"'/J-
ChiMren: i. .\bigail. horn .May 20, I73'i;
married llezekiali (iridley. and removed to
Clinton, .\ew N'ork. where she died .\pril 21.
1826. 2. Justus, November 14, 1737. 3.
Elizabeth, Septcml)er 30. I73<>. died November
1'). 1741. 4. .Mary. August 12. 1741. <lied Oc-
tober II. 1783. 3. Zehulon. horn at Meriden.
.\l>ril 13. 1743. 6. .\bel. horn at .Meriden,
1743. 7. David, horn at Pristol. May 13,
1749. 8. Lament. Ixirn May 8. 1731. men-
tioned below. <j. Elizabeth, born at Uristol ;
married. December 16. 1772. .\bel Hawley:
died at Clinton. New \'ork, March 12. i8ih.
10. Josiah, Imrn January 19. 1735.
(V) I^Tiiient. son of Zehulon Peck, was
born May 8. 1731, at I'armington. died May
3. 1823. at liristol. formerly I'armington. He
lived there all his active life and was promi-
nent in l)oth town and church. I le married
Rachel Tracy. Children, horn at I'.ristol: i.
Sally. I-ebruary 7, 1784. 2. Tracy, -April 3,
1783. mentioned below. 3. Richard. Decem-
ber 13. 1786. 4. .Susanna. .August 31. 1788.
3. Child. .^September 21. i7<)o. died October
8. following. (1. Epaphroditus. ( )ctober 26.
1791. 7. Nehemiah, ."September 26. 1793. 8.
Newman. November 23. 1793. 9. Rachel. De-
cember 23. 1797. 10. James Ci.. June 24, 1800.
I \T I Tracy, son of Lament Peck, was Ixirn
at I'ristol. .April 3. 1783. died there I'ebruary
12. 18^12. He was a prominent citizen of
P.ristol. He serverl his townjn the general
assembly of the state: later was state sen-
ator: was for many years justice of the peace,
judge of probate, selectman, town clerk, canal
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commissioner, county surveyor, and held other
offices of trust and honor. He was greatly in-
terested in the genealogy of his family and
other matters of local history. He married,
February 3. 1812. Sally Adams, of Litchfield.
Children, born at Bristol: i. Epaphroditus,
November 13, 1812, died in London, England,
September 20, 1857; pioneer salesman of
American clocks in Europe. 2. Sally H. S.,
March 17, 1815, died December 9, 1815. 3.
Sarah Tracy, November 5, 1816: married
Charles E. Smith; died at Bristol, Jtme 17,
1894, 4. Rachel Ripley, September 27, 1818:
married, July 25, 1848, Charles Bronson ; died
at Waterbury, December 31, 1908. 5. Joseph
Adams, October 9, 1820, died December 4,
1822. 6. A son, July 6, 1822, died July 12,
1822. 7. Joseph Adams, February 18, 1824 ;
married, September i, 1846, Mary E'. Thorp;
died at New Haven, September 5, 1908. 8.
Josiah Tracy, August 3, 1826, mentioned be-
low. 9. Eliza J., August 19, 1828, died July
17, 1847. ^o- Henry Adams, July 26, 1832;
captain of Company L Tenth Connecticut
Regiment, in the civil war. fought in twenty-
three battles; still living (1910) in Bristol,
Connecticut. 11. Kezia Adams, November
25. 1834; still living in Bristol. 12. Tracy,
May 24, 1838, graduate A. B., Yale, 1861 ;
professor of Latin in Cornell and in Yale uni-
versities, now professor emeritus in Yale ;
married, December 22, 1870, Elizabeth H.
Hall.
(ATE) Josiah Tracy, son of Judge Tracy
Peck, was born at Bristol, Connecticut, Au-
gust 3, 1826, died at Bristol, June 22, .1877.
He was collector of internal revenue during the
civil war, and for one term judge of probate.
He resided at Bristol, and was prominent in
all public and business matters. In religion
he was a Congregationalist and in politics a
Republican. He married, November 23, 1847,
Ellen Lewis, born October 3, 1825, daughter
of Theodore and Amy (Lewis) Barnard. She
is still living at Bristol. Children, born in
Bristol: i. Miles Lewis, July 24, 1849: re-
sides at Bristol : has been treasurer of the
Bristol Savings Bank from 1871 to the present
time (1910) ; was warden of the borough of
Bristol, 1894-96: is president of the Bristol
and Plainvillc Tramway Company, and di-
rector of many other business corporations :
married, October 18, 1871, Mary Harriet Sey-
mour; children: i. Josiah Henry, born March
5, 1873 ; graduated A. B. at Yale. 1895, LL. B.
at Harvard, 189S; in law practice at Hart-
ford; married, November 12, 1902, Maud
Helen Tower ; ii. Howard Sevmour, born
May 17, 1874, graduated A. B.,' Yale, 1896;
married, October 16, 1900, Florence Edna
Roe : children : Seymour Roe, born November
5, 1901, and Nancy, June 30, 1903 ; they reside
at Bristol; iii. Hilda M.. born April 19, 1881,
graduated A. B., Vassar, 1903 : resides at
Bristol; iv. Rachel K., born January 6, 1883,
graduated A. B., Vassar, 1905 ; married, June
28, 1910, Newell Jennings; they reside at
Bristol ; v. Mary M. L., born January 22,
1895. 2. Eliza Jane, born August 4, 1853;
resides at Bristol ; assistant librarian of the
Bristol Public Library. 3. Theodore Barnard,
born January 14, 1856; graduated Arch. B.
at Cornell, 1877; now an architect at Water-
bury, Connecticut. 4. Epaphroditus, born
A Fay 20, i860, mentioned below. 5. Edson
May, born May 23, 1864 : assistant treasurer
of the Bristol Savings Bank ; married, October
17, 1894, Philena Skinner; thev reside in
Bristol. 6. Ellen Amy, born March 18, 1869;
resides in Bristol.
(\TII) Epaphroditus, son of Josiah Tracy
Peck, was born May 20, i860, at Bristol, Con-
necticut. He graduated LL. B., Yale. 1881.
He has been- in legal practice at Bristol since
1882. He has been town and borough attor-
ney, prosecuting attorney, liciuor prosecuting
agent for the county, since 1887 associate
judge of the court of common pleas for Hart-
ford county, and since 1903 lecturer and in-
structor on the faculty of Yale Law School.
He was the orator at the centennial celebra-
tion of the town of Bristol in 1885, at the
celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the First Congregational
Church of Bristol in 1897, and at the one hun-
dredth anniversary of the town of Burling-
ton, 1906. He has been prominent in the
local and state work of the Congregational
church, moderator of the state conference at
New Haven, 1903 ; delegate to the national
council at Des Moines, 1894; alternate dele-
gate to the international council at Boston,
1899; director at large of Missionary Society
of Connecticut since 1901 ; president of the
Central Congregational Club, 1904-05, and
author of "The Property Rights of Husband
and Wife under the Law of Connecticut,"
1904, and of numerous addresses and articles.
He is a member of the American Bar Asso-
ciation, .\merican Academy of Political and
Social Science, Connecticut Academy of Arts
and Sciences, Connecticut Historical Society,
and other societies, and of the Graduates'
Club, New Haven. He resides at Bristol.
He married, August 21, 1886. Grace, daughter
of Franklin C. and Mary B. Brownell. Chil-
dren : I. Margaret \\'inthrop. born June 25.
1890; now a student in Bryn Mawr College.
2. Grace Brownell, November 15, 1892, died
May 16, 1896. 3. Dorothy Adams, March 4,
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\Xi)y. (lied Aii^'ust 2C\ 1899. 4. Mildred Atli-
trtdii. October i, 1808. 5. tileanf>r Lewis,
Septeniher lo, 1O04. <liecl May 2. 1907.
Tile name of this family is of tjrcat
I'RCK anti(|iiity. It is fonnd in Melton.
Yorkshire, England, at an early
date, and from there scattered not only over
Enpland hut in every civilized country in the
wnrld. A hrandi settled in I leaden and
Wakefield, \'(irkshire. wlmse ('esccndanls
moved to I'eccles, Suffolk county, and were
the ancestors of one branch of the American
family. The arms of the Peck family in Eng-
land : .Nrgent on a chevron eni,'railed, gules
three crosses formec of the first. (.'re<t : .\
cubit arm erect. h;ibited azure, cuff argent,
liand iiro(ier. holding on one stalk enfiled with
.1 scroll, three roses gules, leaves vert.
(I\) .\mos. son of Samuel (2) I'eck (q.
v.). was born at Kensington. March 3, 1715,
(bed in .Midilletown, Ajiril (>, 1S02. lie mar-
ried. July jfi. 1750. Mary Hart, who died June
J2. 1771. thildren: Matthew, born July 16,
1751 ; .\mos, J.inuary 25. 1754; Ruth, .\ovcm-
ber 28. 1736: .Mary, March 9. 17^10: llnldah,
September i,v I7'^i2; Lenniel, March 28. 1765.
mentioned below; Lucy. December 2. 17*^17.
I \ I Lemuel, son of Amos I'rck. was horn
March 28. 17(^13, died in lierlin. Connecticut,
l-ebruary 22. 1821. He married Lydia Uick-
insi>n. who died .\pril 13. 1826. Children:
Sclclcn. born January 23. 1794. mentioned be-
low : Harriet, bebruary 14. r7<)''i. died Novem-
ber II, 1828: Sherman. December 28, 1800.
( \T ) Seidell, son of Lemuel I'eck. was
born January 23. 1794. died in Meriden. Con-
necticut. He was a farmer in Merlin. Con-
necticut. He married. November i. 1826.
Ltic\- II. Hart. Children: Sherman II.. horn
March 17. 1829: Ilattie K.. .\pril id. 1833:
Menry H.. Decemlier 23. i8,?8. mentioned hc-
' w : (icorge S.. May 9. 1S40, died 1863: Lucy
\nn. n-tober 17. 1S44.
i\llt Henry IL, son of Selden Peck, was
l)orn in I'.erlin. Decemhcr 23. i8_^8. He at-
tended the public schools, and assisted his fa-
ther Mil the farm until lie was seventeen years
' Id. when he entered the Meriden bi-jh school,
mil finishe ! his education at the Kellogg In-
stitute. In 1837 he entered the dry goods
store of D. & N. C,. Miller, .\fter three years
in their emiiloy. he removed to Waterbury.
and with Charles Mil'er opened a ilry goods
store tliere. The first store was in I'.aldwin's
block. uiKler the firm name of .Miller &• Peck.
In i8()i they removed to I lotchkiss block, and
:uid remained there until they removed to
tl'eir |<resent location on .South Main street.
rile firm was successful from the start, and
in 1887 Mr. Peck withdrew from active busi-
ness, although his name is still associate*! with
the firm. He has been tru-iee of the Dime
.Savings Hank, and iire-ident since iH>ii). In
the same year he serve<l as representative in
the legislature, serving on a numlH;r of impor-
tant committees. I le was a member of the
executive Iniard of the hospital in 1895, and
was one of the founders of the linard of
trade. He is a charter memlier of Continen-
tal Lodge, Eree and .\ccepted .Masons, and
Clark Commandery, Knights Templar. He
has traveled extensively, and visited almost
every quarter of the globe. He is unmarried.
Henjamin Peck, son of Henry
PECK Peck (q. V.I, was bajitized .Sep-
tember 3, 1647, at New Haven,
Lonnecticut. where he lived all of his life.
He resided in the second division, then known
as the .S|)erry farms, afterward .\mity So-
ciety, and now a part of WcM^dbridge. His
will was dated .March 3, 17.^0. and proved
April 3. 1730. He married Slary, daughter
of Richard Sperry. March 29, 1670. Chil-
dren: Menjamin, born January 4. 1671 : Mary,
.Se[iteinber 3. 1672: Joseph. Fehruary 26,
1676; Esther, if'179: Ebcnezer, .\pril 24, i68t,
die ! young : Ebeiiezer, January 3. it'if^^, men-
tioned below: Desire, .August 26, 1687; John;
Lylia, married Solomon Terry ; Mehitahle,
married Ebenezer Stevens.
(HI I Ebcnezer. son of Heniamin Peck, was
lx)m January 3. 1684, at New Haven. He
lived in New Haven, and prr>bably in .\inity
Society. His will was presented to the court
to be approved May. 17^18, hut was not proved.
The court ordered the estate to he divided
among the heirs. He married (first) Hannah
Hotchkiss; (second! Elizabeth Wilmot. Chil-
dren, horn at New Haven : Ebenezer, March
12, 1710: Hannah, February 13. 1711-12:
.Mary, November 2, 1714; Joseiih. March 28,
171S. nientionefl below; R.ichel. .\ugust i,
1721 ; .Ambrose. March 3. 1723; Lydia, De-
cember II. 1728; Eunice,' .\ugnsl 6, 1730, died
young; I'athsheba. .September 27. 1732; Hen-
ajali, June i, 1733; I'.enjamin. .August 14,
1737. died young; Ste(ilien, .August 5, 1742;
Eunice, September 2f<. 1744: lienjaniin. .March
10. I74'^47-
(I\) Joseph, son of ElK-nczcr Peck, was
born at New Haven, ^^arch 28. 1718. He
setlleil at .\iiiity. His will is at New Haven.
He married .Anna Perkins, January 12, 1743-
44. Children : Seth. -ctfled at P.ristol, Omnecti-
ciit ; Joseph, mentioned below; Dan. settled
at Ilristol ; John, married Lois Osborn ; Henrv,
settled at I'ristnl; .\iney ; I')orca* ; Mathshelja ;
.Asenath ; Electa, married Roger .Ailing.
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(V) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) Peck,
was a jail keeper. Children: Joseph, men-
tioned below : Nancy ; Sarah.
(VI) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Peck,
married Annie Reed, both of Lyme, Connec-
ticut. They had a son George Reed, men-
tioned below.
(VII) George Reed, son of Joseph (3)
Peck, was born at Lyme, 180 1. He married
Elizabeth Smitli Lee. Children: Seth Lee,
mentioned below. Joseph, Esther M., Richard
W., Frank, James Henry, Mary and Walter ,
Scott, all of whom were married except Mary.
(VIII) Seth Lee, son of George Reed Peck,
was born at Lyme, December 6, 1825. He
was educated in the public schools of his na-
tive town and at the academy. He started a
tannery in Lyme, near Hamburg, where he
was in business for four years. Then he came
to Norwich and worked in various lines of
business, ten years on his own account and
for ten years was in charge of a building ma-
terial business owned by Alfred Young Hib-
bard. He bought the business after the death
of his employer and continued in it for ten
years. He admitted his son, Henry, and John
McWilliams, and the firm name is now Peck,
McWilliams & Company. The firm does a
large business in building and general con-
tracting. Mr. Peck retired from active busi-
ness in 1900 and resides at 25 Peck street,
Norwich. He was a soldier in the civil war.
Company C, Twenty-sixth Regiment Connec-
ticut V'olunteers, and is a member of Sedg-
wick Post, No. I, Grand Army of the Repub-
lic. He is a member of the Broadway Con-
gregational Church of Norwich. He married,
August 6, 1849, Eunice, born May 11, 1822,
daughter of Nehemiah M. and Huldah
(Wheeler) Gallup (see Gallup XI). Chil-
dren: I. Henry Clay, January 2'j, 1859; mar-
ried Lizzie Wanser and had one child, Violet
Marian. 2. William Lee, born November 7,
1859 : resides in New London ; married Emma
Williams : children : Howard Bentley, Harry
Williams and Ruth Williams. 3. Charles Seth,
August 22, 1865, died October 28, 1869.
(The Gallup Line).
(VII) Benadam Gallup, son of Captain
John Gallup (q. v.), was born in Stonington,
Connecticut, in 1655. He married Esther,
born July 20, 1660, daughter of John and
Esther Prentice, of New London, Connecticut.
They were both members of the Congrega-
tional church of Stonington. He died August
2, 1727, aged seventy-two, and his wife died
May 18, 1 75 1, aged ninety-two. The inven-
tory of his estate amounted to five hundred
and eighty-three pounds, thirteen shillings.
No will has been found. Children : Hannah,
born May 22, 1683 ; Esther, 1685 ; Mercy,
1690; Benadam, 1693, mentioned below; Jo-
seph, 1695; I\Iargaret, 1698; Lucy, 1701.
(VIII) Lieutenant Benadam (2) Gallup,
son of Benadam ( i ) Gallup, was born at Gro-
ton, Connecticut, 1693. He married Eunice
Cobb, January 11, 1716. He died September
30, 1755, and his wife died February i, 1759,
aged sixty-three. His ''ear-mark" was re-
corded June 24, 1718, and the same mark
was used afterwards by his son Henry. Chil-
dren: Benadam, born October 26, 1716;
Esther, February 24, 1718; Eunice (twin),
March 29, 1721 ; Lois (twin) ; William, July
4, 1723; Henry, October 5, 1725. mentioned
below; Nathan, 1727; Ebenezer ; Thomas P.,
baptized July 28, 1734; Hannah, married Rob-
ert Allyn, January 23, 1755 ; Sarah.
(IX) Henry, son of Lieutenant Benadam
(2) Gallup, was born in Groton, October 5,
1725. He married, October 4, 1750, Hannah,
daughter of Nehemiah and Zerviah (Stanton)
Mason. He died November 11, 181 1, aged
eighty-six, and his wife died January 24, 1808.
She was a great-granddaughter of Major John
Mason, and was born in Stonington, June 10,
1726. Major John ]\Iason was born in Eng-
land about 1600 and came to America in 1630.
He was lieutenant in the English army, serv-
ing under Lord Fairfax in the Netherlands
with Captain John Gallup, and sharing with
him and his son John the terrible conflicts in
the Indian wars. He settled in Dorchester,
and married Anne Peck in 1640. He was
deputy-governor and major-general of the
forces of the colony. He died January, 1672.
His sixth child, Daniel, born April, 1652, mar-
ried, October 10, 1679, Rebecca Hobart, third
wife, daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart. of
Hingham, Massachusetts. He died 1737, and
she died April 8, 1727, at Stonington ; they
had seven children. The youngest, Nehemiah
Mason, married Zerviah Stanton, and they
settled at Stonington and owned Mason's
Island. Children of Henry Gallup : Nehe-
miah, born June 19, 1751, mentioned below;
Eunice, August 7, 1755 ; Henry, October 17,
1758; Andrew, January 26, 1761 ; Jared, No-
vember 22, 1767.
(X) Nehemiah, son of Henry Gallup, was
born June 19, 175 1. He married Elizabeth
Brown, January 28, 1783. Children: Eliza-
beth, born November ^o, 1783; Neliemiah M.,
February 12, 1785, mentioned below; John S.,
April 5, 1787; Orenda, March 8, 1790; Elisha,
June 22, 1792; Luke, April 17, 1794; Serviah,
October 16, 1796; Ebenezer, April 27, 1800.
(XI). Nehemiah M., son of Nehemiah Gal-
lup, was born in Groton, February 12, 1785,
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•lied |amiar\ 21. 1871. Mc married llnldah
\\ heeler, of Stonin}^lon, April 26, 1812. Chil-
dren: I. Kliza, hum Xovemhcr 12, 1813: mar-
ried I.yman Ijalliip, Deceml)er 9, 1840: died
April 2ji. 1879. 2. -Mary A., April 17, 1815;
married \\ illiain i-'annini;, July 21, 1S36. 3.
Neheniiah .M., October 22. 1816. 4. John W.,
November (1. 1818. 3. Hannah, AuKUst 7,
1820: married Eleazer W. Carter, March 2,
1844: dieil June 13, 184^1. 6. Kunice, May 11,
1822: married Seth L. I'eck, Auijust 6. 1849
(see Peck- XIll). 7. I'hebe E.. I'ebruarv 8.
1824, <lied May 30, 1842. 8. Mason, March
4, i82(), died April 16, 1830. 9. William K.,
May 19. 1828. 10. Harriet A.. Aui,'u>t 22,
1830: niarrieii Frederic A. Buttim. June 19,
1S50: died April 25, 1887. u. Itcnjamin,
June i<), 1832: has lived in the Southern
States, in Canada, in Chili. South America,
and Sacramento City. California. 12. Henry
' . November 6, 1834: went to London. Ent;-
iiid, where he was married and where he re-
ded until his death. He left a son, who is
■w livintr in that citv.
The first mention found of An-
MO()RIC drew Moore, of Poquonock.
Connecticut, is the reconl of his
ni.irria^e. which is as follows: "Andrew
Moore & fara I'helpes yt was Dafter of fam-
uell riK-li)es ware married by capten Xewber-
IV. fel)ruary 15. 1671." Samuel Phelps was the
n of William, the immigrant, who came to
''■rchester, Massachusetts, in 1630, and from
ere went to Windsor, Connecticut, in 1636.
U' married Sarah, dauijhter of Edward Gris-
wold. November to. i(J50. The Phelps fam-
ily came froui Tewkesbury. En'^land. on the
ship "Mary and John." Sarah (jriswold was
born in Kenilworth. England, in iri28. and
came to .\merica with her father in 1639.
They settled in W'inds<ir, Connecticut.
(l) In 1675 Andrew Moore was paid one
pound, seventeen shillings by Matthew Grant
on "warr account." This must have been for
services during tlie destruction of Simsbury
by the Indians. January 23, 1674, the town
paid .Andrew Moore, Nathaniel Pimiey and
Joseph Griswold. by Matthew (jrant. for mak-
ing a new ferry boat. They were paid three
pounds six shillings eight cents in barter, and
it seems that the tax levy was assigned be-
fore collection in the payment of debts at that
time. He received all his share of payment
for the boat in provisions. On .August 24.
1678. he and thirty-four others were sued by
Jamc; Cornisli for a schcml bill of five shil-
lings two cents. His oldest child Sarah was
then only six years old. On December 20,
i^>8o, he was paid by the town for labor on
the church. He had a grant of land at Sal-
mon iJrook, now Granby, Connecticut, in l68o,
in which he is called ".\ndrew Moore, the car-
penter, of Windsor, Conn." Major John Tal-
cott. who had agreed to extinguish the Indian
title to Simsbury for three hundred acres of
land, gives a gloomy account of this land at
that time. He says that he "can finil no place
where anything considerable can be taken up,
the most of that which some call mea<low is
full of small brush and vines through which
there is no passing, or full of trees great ami
small, and in ye place where the best land of
that sort is, there is no accomnuxlation of
upland to it saving only mighty tall moun-
taynes and Ruckcs and the way bad to it, and
a great way to all of it, and will be dismally
obscure and solitary to any that shall live
upon it, and very hard coming at the market,
not only because of the remoteness but bad-
ness of the i>assage, and the society of the
neighborhood will be very thin, all which will
be discouraging." At a later date .\ndrew
Moore bought land of John Gozard on the
"east side of the mountains, bounded easterly
by Simsbury easterly bounds, southerly by
John Pettybone, his lot (allias Jonathan
Moore, his lot) the bredth of s'd lot westerly
by the commons is fifty rods." On March 29,
1713, he deeded to his son Penjamin Moore,
"for divers good causes and considerations me
thereimto moving, but especially in considera-
tion of my fatherly love and affection I have
to my son Benjamin Moore," fifty acres of
land in Turkey Hills, now East Granby. He
lived in Windsor, where the births of all his
children are recorded except William. He
died November 29. 17 19. The inventory of
his estate was made December 17, 1719.
amounting to three hundred and twenty
pounds, and his widow Sarah was apiiointed
administratrix. He had fifteen acres of land
in Windsor, with house and barn, carpenter's
tools, farming implements, a cider mill. loom,
spinning wheel, sword and belt, and a library
"l)rised at 8 shillings," besides two pieces of
land in Simsbury. The distribution of the
estate took place .April 3. 1720. and each of
his nine children took his share of property
after the widow's share had Ixren set oflf to
her. Children : Sarah, born December 6.
1672: Andrew, February 13. 1^74: Deborah,
May 31, 1677: Jonathan. February 2<>. 1679-
80: .Abigail, September 12. i«'>82: William,
i'j84. mentioned below: Rachel, February 6.
1^190-91 : Benjamin. December 3. 1^93; .Amos.
October 19, 1698.
(11) William, son of .Andrew Moore, was
born in 1^184. die«l May 9. 1780. in Granby,
Connecticut. His headstone is marked "Mr.
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Will. Moore," and says he died in his ninety-
seventh year. He married (tirst) Elizabeth
Case, who died in Granby, then Simsbury,
September 29, 1739. when she was forty-nine
years old. Xo record of this marriage has
iieen found, but he mentioned in his will a
■■piece of land he bought of his brother, Wil-
liam Case." If by brother he means brother-
in-law, then Elizabeth, daughter of William
and Elizabeth (Holcomb) Case, born Septem-
ber, 1689, was his wife, ^^'illianl Case was
the son of John Windsor and Sarah ( Spen-
cer) Case, of Hartford. Elizabeth had a
brother William who was born 2ilarch 22,
1691. William Aloore married (second), Jan-
uary 20, 1740, Damaris, daughter of Josiah
Phelps, who married Sarah, daughter of
Nathaniel and Sarah Porter Winchell. Jo-
siah Phelps was son of Samuel, son of Wil-
liam, the immigrant. "The aged William
Moore" made his will November 7, 1773, and
the distribution of the estate occurred Octo-
ber 30, 1781. The inventory amounted to
seven hundred and fifty pounds. To ■'my be-
loved wife Damaris" he gave one-half the
dwelling house, one-quarter the cellar and
well, one-quarter of the barn and one-quarter
of all his lands and movable estate as long
as she remained his widow. She was eighty-
one at the time of his death. Children, by
first marriage: William, born July 19, 1712;
David, September 18, 1713; Timothy: James,
June 6, 1715, mentioned below; Shadrack,
September 19, 1717; Mercy (or Mary), No-
vember 25, 1719: Ebenezer, April 20. 1722;
.Andrew: Isaac. 1727. Child by second wife,
Naomi (or Ame).
(Ill) James, son of \^'illiam Moore, was
born in Simsbury, June 6, 1716. He married
Rachel, daughter of Matthew and Hannah
(Chapman) Cirant, in Simsbury, May 25, 1737.
She was born in Windsor, April 17, 1704.
Matthew was son of Samuel and Mary (Por-
ter ) Grant. Samuel Grant was son of Mat-
thew Grant, who came to Dorchester in 1630.
Sarah Chapman was daughter of John Por-
ter, the immigrant, who came in 1639. James
Moore died JMarch 5, 1788, and is buried in
East Granby. He made his will December
19, 17S2, disposing of land in Mooretown, a
neighborhood now in Southwick, Massachu-
setts, and land in Turkey Hills, now Granby.
He remembered his widow as follows : "To
my beloved wife Rachel, the use of one-half
my brick house and home-lot containing about
44 acres to use as long as she shall continue
my widow and to have ye liberty of ve use of
my well and to get Wood on my Mountain
Lots during her Widowhood, and one-third
part of my movable estate after debts and
funeral charges are paid out of my movable
estate (not my legacies) to be her property
forever." The following shows he was op-
posed to trumped-up accounts : "If any one
or more of my s'd children shall bring in any
Debts or Charges whatever against my Es-
tate after my decease unless it is Legacies of
by Note or Obligation under my hand well
executed, he or she or they are to have No
other Portion out of my Estate only what is
Recovered By \'irtue of S'd Debt or Charge
and not to take Any advantage of my Legacy
to them in this will." Children : James, Wil-
liam, mentioned below, Joel, Asa, Roswell,
Rachel, Charity.
(I\') William (2) Moore, son of James
Moore, was probably born in Simsbury about
1740. He was at Bunker Hill under Captain
Thomas Knowlton, and served three subse-
quent enlistments. His final discharge is
dated i\Iay 5, 1780, from the third regiment,
Connecticut line. Colonel Samuel Wyllis. He
married Sarah , and had six children
born in Westfield, Alassachusetts. In 1825
Sarah Moore, of Sand Lake. Rensselaer
county. New York, deeded a piece of land in
Simsbury which she inherited from her father,
Mr. Hoskins. This might have been the
widow of William. Children : Sarah, born
May 3, 1757: Eve, May 14, 1760: King, May
18, 1762: William, August 13, 1764: Charity,
August 19, 1766; Theodosia, April 23, 1769;
Willis ; Apollos, mentioned below.
(V) Apollos, son of William (2) Moore,
was born in 1771 and settled in Barkhamsted.
He had a cousin of the same name, son of
Guy Moore. His brother William also settled
in Barkhamsted, and his brother King, born
at Westfield. May 18, 1762, was a soldier in
the revolution. Apollos died at Riverton, in
the town of Barkhamsted, Connecticut, in
1861, aged about ninety-one years. He was
a farmer and owned much land, in fact, the
larger part of the site of the present village
of Riverton. He married Candace Beach.
Children: Alpheus, Charles Beach, De ^lar-
quis De Casso y Rujo Moore, mentioned be-
low, Candace, Nancy, Belinda, Lucinda, Avis.
(VI) De Marquis De Casso y Rujo, son of
.\pollos Moore, was born September 18, 1804,
in the town of Barkhamsted, Connecticut, died
in Colebrook, in 1889. He owned a large
farm and saw mill and manufactured lumber
on a large scale, being very successful. He
married Thankful, born September 25. 1808,
died September, 1885. daughter of Judah and
Mercy ( Eno ) Roberts. Children : Candace,
born June 10, 1824: Osbert, March 18, 1830:
John, February i, 1835, died in infancy: El-
len ; Sarah Marilla, July 24, 1839 ; John Apol-
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los, Ucceniber 18. 1842: Laura Almira, Octo-
ber 10, 1844; Kdliert Cicero, March 10, 1849,
married, in 1872, ISclle l-iic\, tlaiiijliter of
Chester and Lucy Ann ( Hulliert ) Ciallin, of
SandisfieM, Massaduisetts.
(\'II) John Apollos. son of Dc Marquis
I)e C'asso y Riijo MiHjrc, was liorn in Colc-
liriKik. Connecticut. Deceinlicr 18, 1842. He
atteniie<l tiie |)ul)lic schools of liis native town,
tile Surtield Literary Institute, the Select
School in Kiverton. Coinieclicut. and the
Lastman liusiness College, of I'ouj^hkcepsic.
.New York, from which lie was jjraduated at
the ai;e of twenty-one years. He taught
sL-liool three years before he was of ai;e, in
Litclilield county, Connecticut and in Massa-
chusetts. He lived in Winsted, Connecticut,
a year, working as clerk in a hardware store.
Durini; the next four years he was in business
■ lU his own accoimt in Xew I'.oston, Massa-
ihu^etts, as a jreneral merchant, .^ince 1872
he has made his hdme at Uobertsville. Con-
necticut. He followed teaching;, in addition
to farming, until ifjo2, and since then has
<levoted all his time to his farm. He is a
Republican in politics and rejireseiited his
town ciiie year in the general assembly. He
i^ a deacon of the i!a])tist church. He mar-
ried. March 3, 1866, Irene Harriet, born at
lorrington, then Xcwfield, October 14. 1843,
died ^lay 20. 1905, daughter of Deacon I'red-
erick and Harriet (Hoyt) Xorth (see Xorth
\ 1 ). Children: i. .\lmira Ruble, born Au-
gust If). 1867; married Clayton H. neiuing.
'<i Tolland, Massachusetts, superintendent of
I'unis club: children: .Arthur C. Harvey
John, Lynn X.. .\llen .M. and X'ernera Item-
ing. 2. De Marcjuis De Casso y Rujo. July
24, 18^19: physician at South Manchester,
Connecticut, luarried Ida Quilter. 3. Freder-
ick Xorth. mentioned below. 4. Harriet
Thankful, .\ugust 25, 1875: married Homer
neming, of ColebrtM)k, farmer: children:
I'lcrnice and Homer Deming. 5. Cicero John,
December 14. 1878: dentist at Terryville,
Connecticut : married Lillian Tarr. 6. Irene
Marilla. May i. 1881: school teacher: lives
with jiarents. 7. Ira Wintield, June 14. 1883:
machinist. Terryville, Connecticut : married
Iva Remington: chiUlren : W'infield R. and
Ruth.
(\Tin Frederick Xorth. son of John .\pol-
los Moore, was Ix^rn in Winchester, Litch-
field county. Connecticut, Xovciul)cr i. 1871,
an<l was educated in the public sehnols of
ColeI)riMik. He t>>ok a s|iecial course in civil
engineering and surveying. He has been eu-
ga'jcd in farming most of his active life, at
Colebrook. He lived for a time at Torring-
ton. In 1908 he came to W'instetl, and since
then has devoted his entire attention to his
profession as civil engineer and to the real
estate business. In jxilitics he is a Republican,
in religion a Haptist. He married, January
I, 1895, Susie E., daughter of Samuel and
Eliza ( Reed » Uull, of Xew Hartford, Con-
necticut. I'lOth parents were born in Eng-
land, and came to this country in 1872, making
their home soon afterward in Xew Hartfonl.
Her father died in W'insteil, in 1905. He
was a carpenter by trade. Children of Sam-
uel ami I-'liza Hull : Samuel, born and died in
Fni^land, Mary .\., Samuel J., Susie E., Wil-
liam E., IVederick (i., Harry C, Louise,
Richard S.. Jennie, Rali>h R. Children of
Mr. an<l Mrs. Moore: .\lthena l-!llizabcth,
born at Torrington, Octol)er 18, 1895; Rich-
ard I'rederick, Torrington, December 15,
1896: .Mfaretta Irene, Uinchestcr, July 26,
1898: Ruby Xorth. Colebnwik. December 16,
1902; John Robert. Colebrook, .May 11, 1905;
Marion Marilla, Colebrook, Fcbruarv 22,
1907.
(The North Line).
(Ill) Ebenezcr Xorth. son of Thomas
Xorth (q. v.), was born in 1703, died .Au-
gust 5, 1789. He married, in 1730, Sibyl
Curtis, who died Xovember 17, 1794. age<l
ninety-one. He came to Torrington from
Farmington (jreat Swamp in the spring of
1 74 1 and bought, with Zcbulon Curtis, two
farms south of the old Mathew drant place,
where he settled. Later he suld |)art of his
farm to Curtis. Children, burn at I-'arming-
ton and Torrington: .\shbel, October 3, 1731.
flied July 9, 1800; Xoah, mentioned below:
Martin. December 13, 1734, died 1806; Sybil,
September 4. 1736; Lucy. May i, 1739:
.\sahel. May 13. 1743. died 1803: Ebenezer,
June 2y. 1746, died December 12, 1832:
.\clisah, .\ugust 14. 1748: Sarah. December
I, 1732.
( I\ ) Deacon Xoah, son of Ebenezer Xorth,
was born at Farmington, January 10, 1733.
died April 5, 181S. He removed to Torring-
ton. Connecticut, with his parents when he
was ten years old. He was a prominent citi-
zen and repre-cnfcd his town several years in
the general assembly of the state. He was
selectman of the town of Torrington and
deacon of the church. In religion he was a
very strict Puritan. In going to the barn one
Siunlav afternoon with him, his grandson
Cvrus slid across a little patchof ice. The
old man got a horsewhip ami proceeded to
trounce the youngster severely for breaking
the Sabbath. He married (first) March 25.
1756, Jemima Loomis, who died December 2~,
1767. He married (second) May 29. 1771.
Elizabeth Humphrey, who died .August 5,
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1822, aged seventy-eight years. Children :
Noah, born June 12, 1757, died April 28,
1789; Junia or Junius; Remembrance, Octo-
ber 13, 1762; Jemima, April 7, 1766, married
Elihu Barber; Mary, December 19, 1767,
married Rev. Hezekiah West, Baptist minis-
ter, who went to Pennsylvania.
(X ) Junia or Junius, son of Deacon Noah
North, was born September 24, 1760, died
November 14, 1828. He married (first) Jan-
uarv 25, 1785, Sabrina Fyler. She died, and
he married (second) Sally' Covey, in January,
1807. He settled on the north and south road
east of his father's, where his son afterwards
lived. He kept a tavern for many years, and
was an active, stirring man. He was called
"Uncle Juna" by all. Children, all by first
wife: Roxalany, born November 2, 1785,
married Daniel Murry in March, 1810; Tri-
phena, March 14, 1787, died April 10, 1867;
Ariel, August 13, 1788, died September 22,
1818; Ruby. July 28, 1790, married (first)
Orrin Loomis, in November, 1821, and (sec-
ond) Moses Drake, died May 16, 1875; Wil-
lard, June 5, 1792; Sabrina, August 15, 1794,
died j\lay 22, 1875 ; Junius or Junia, April 30,
1796: Lura, October 7, 1798, married Midian
Griswold, March 19, 1822, of Litchfield ;
Frederick, mentioned below, and Philomela
(twins), August 12, 1803: Philomela died
April 30. 1804.
(VI) Deacon Frederick, son of Junia or
Junius North, was born August 12, 1803.
He married Harriet, daughter of Ira Hoyt,
June 14, 1830. She was born in Warren,
Connecticut, March 30, 18 10. He lived on
his father's place. Fie was elected deacon of
the Baptist church in Newfield, was a farmer,
and very much respected. Children : Char-
lotte Jane, born May 13, 1831, married Jo-
seph Deming, of Colebrook, March 12, 1856;
Adaline Plumb and Catharine Palms (twins),
August 29. 1S33: .\daline Plumb died May
28, 1848; Carrel Fyler, June 29, 1835: Junius
Davis, June 17, 1839; Roxa Amelia, April 23,
1842, died May 28, 1882, married Elbert Nor-
ton, of Goshen, December 31, 1865; Irene
Harriet, October 14, 1843, died May 20, 1905,
married John A. Moore, of Colebrook, March
3, 1866 (see Moore VII). Annie Margiana,
]\Iarch 27, 1845, rnarried Edward Y. Clark,
of Washington, Connecticut, October 22,
1870; Frederick Alonzo, born April 10, 1846;
Lyman Hoyt, February 4, 1849 ; Rubie Olivia,
May 30, 185 1.
Stephen Moore was the keeper
MOORE of the lighthouse on Fairweather
Island for many years. Pre-
viously he had been a farmer in Derby, Con-
necticut. He was an upright and useful citi-
zen, faithful to every duty and interested in
every good cause. He is buried in Mountain
Grove cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut. He
married Hannah . Children: James
Hovey, mentioned belovv' : \Villiam, died
young; Kate, unmarried, succeeded her father
as keeper of the lighthouse and so continued
until her death ; Alary, married Hunt,
of Brooklyn, New York ; Elizabeth, married
\\'dliam Howard Thomas. All of the above-
named children are now deceased.
(II) James Hovey, son of Stephen and
Hannah Moore, was born in 1804 at Derby,
Connecticut, died at Bridgeport, Connecticut,
in 1889. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town. He began his busi-
ness career at the age of eleven, when he was
sent alone to drive a flock of sheep from
Derby to Fairweather Island, where his father
kept the lighthouse. When he reached Bridge-
port the tide was too high to ford the river
and he had to wait for low tide, but he finally
reached his destination safely, with all his
flock, and was afterward employed bv Isaac
Hinman to make similar trips. He served an
apprenticeship at the trade of shipwright,
worked as a journeyman for a time, and later
engaged in business on his own account as a
ship-builder, enjoying in due course of time
a large and flourishing trade. He built for
himself some forty vessels, in addition to
those under contract, and made use of them
in the coal trade. He was a master mariner
and on various occasions handled the vessels
himself. After his death the business was
continued for a time by his widow. The
shipyard and docks that he built, as well as
the vessels, are a monument to his energy,
industry and ability. He began without ad-
vantages in the race of life and won a signal
success in business. He was undaunted by
adversity, and persevered and v.-on in many
struggles that seemed hopeless. He won the
confidence of the business world and the re-
spect of his townsmen. He was interested
in public education and performed efficient
service as a member of the school board, and
also for a time served in the capacitv of select-
man of the town. He was a director of
Pequonock Bank in 1881, and his knowledge
of the value of real estate was of inestimable
value to that institution. He was a constant
attendant of the First Congregational Church,
of which his wife was a member, and where
her grandfather preached for twenty-one
years, up to the time of his death, and wdio
erected the first house on Golden Hill, now a
fine residential section. In politics Mr. Moore
was a Republican. He married (first) Betsey
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647
I.ecte. lie married (second) in 1872, Eliza-
beth Waterman. Iwirn at Stratfurd, clangliter
of Alanson Freennmd Lewis (sec Lewis V).
(The Lewis Line).
( I ) I'.enjamin Lewis, immit;rant ance-tor.
is first licard of in N'ew Haven. Connecticut,
removinp there from W'allinjjford in itVn),
iiid takin);^ up liis residence in Stratfurd ;il)iiut
11)76-77. where he was the first of the name,
lie exchanged his farm in WallinKfonl with
John Hull, of StratfonI and Derby, for Hulls
property in Stratford. He married, in .Strat-
fonI, Hannah, daughter of Sergeant John
Curtis, ami settled in Wallingford. but later
returne<l to Stratford. Children: loini. Ixirn
in W'.'dlingford. September. 1(172: Mary, Xo-
vember. i()74, in Wallingford; lames, i<'>79,
in Stratford: Kdnumd, 1(179: Joseph, 10.S3;
Hannah, 1(^85: Mary, about 1688: Martha.
I'lQi ; Menjamin. mentioned below : Kunice.
(II) Ltenjamin (2). son of P.enjamin (i)
Lewis, was born in 1^)96. He married Sarah,
daughter of Danie! He I'orest. According to
the town records of ."^tratford he married,
I-"chruary 26. 1719-20. Sarah Xicolls. Chil-
dren : William : Xehemiah : Hepsebah, bap-
tized Jime, 1724: Benjamin, mentioned be-
low: Samuel, born June 2^. 17,^1 : Isaac, Sep-
tember, 1734.
(III) P.enjamin (3), .son of P.enjamin (2)
Lewis, was born S^|itember 14, 1729. He
married Elizabeth . Children : Free-
uiund. mentioned below : Huldah, baptized
Xovember, 1765: Agur. baptize<l Jidy, 1767:
Haniel, baptized Aj.ril. 1776: I'ctsey. married
Abijah CtTord: Polly, married Judson Curtis.
(IN) Freemund. son of P.enjamin (3)
Lewis, was baptized I'cbruary. 17()4. He was
born and died in Stratford. He married
Cherry, horn January 11. 17C)3, daughter of
llenoni and Mehitable ( P.ooth) French. Chil-
dren: Alan-on brcemund. mcntic.neil below;
Eliza Mehitable, married Eliakim Hough.
(\') Alanson Frecmuml. son of Freemund
Lewis, was born .\ugiist 30. 1793, died in
Stratford. May 22, 1859. He was a farmer
by occupation, and resided on the old home-
stead in .^tratford. He participated in the
war of 18 1 2. He was prominent in town
affairs, taking an active part in the building
■ f roads and in the schcwl and cinirch. He
married Julia, daughter of Rev. Elijah Water-
man. She was buried in Lake X'iew ceme-
tery. P.ridgeport, Connecticut. Children :
Frederick Alanson. died at age of twenty;
Julia, married Xathan P.. McEwen. of Strat-
ford, she is still living there : Thomas, died in
1008: Margaret, unmarried, resides with her
MSter, Mrs. McEwen : Elizabeth Waterman.
married James IL Moore ( »ee Mimtc IF);
.Mary, died at age of eighteen
John Hill was one "i inr nrst
HILL settlers of (aiilford; he came from
Xorthamptonshirc, England, as
early as 1(134. He lived on the north side
of the green in (jnilford, in the place occupied
in late years by E. C. ISishop and Tabar
Smith, i le was Inirn in Eneland an<l dicil
June 8. 1689. His wife. '■ '■ ' \Liy.
1673. I heir children w( 14;
James, 1(146; .\nn, 1(148 ~ \U.
His second wife was Kaih.uuii-.
Alexaniler Chalker. of Saybrook.
(H) James, son of John Hill, tin- Mtlkr.
was born in (iuilford. .M.iy 15, i(>4(). died Oc-
tober, 1707. aiul wa> inter'^'i ' ' ••'' • ' He
married, in Se[)tember, p Id,
and their Children were 'N3;
Isaac, 1685; James, 1687; .\nu, i(>>j, Daniel,
i^x;2: John ami Charity (twins), 1694; Mich-
ael. 1698; Mary, 1701.
(HI I Isaac, son of James Hill, was Iwrn
in East (iuilford, September 3, 1^185, died in
\\ Dodbury, February 7, 1733. He married.
July 5, 1711, .\nn Parmalee, and they had
fifteen children. Isaac Hill removed to \Voo<l-
Iniry as early as 17.^8; all the children but
Jonas were born in Guilford. Jonathan and
Daniel were twins; Isaac, married. Xovember
1(1. 1741. Caroline Perry; Sarah: .\hirah,
married. January 29, 1754, Mehitable Lewis;
James; .Submit, married, Xovember 10. 1748,
David Hotchkiss; Huldah.
( I\ ) Jonathan, son of Isaac Hill, was l)orn
Januar\ 30, 1734. He was brought up in
Woodbury ami ilied there Febniary 10. 1797.
He married there .\pril 19. 1738, Elizabeth
Perry. Children, Iwrn at Wcuxlbury: .Anne,
April 19. 1739: Reuben. February 26, 1761;
David. February 10, 1 7(13. died 1843: Daniel,
March 22. 1767, mentioned below; Jonathan,
March 23, 1769.
(A) Daniel, son of Jonathan Hill, was bom
March 22. 1767. at Woodbury, died in Betli-
lem. March 2. 1849. He married Electa
Minor, who died February 7, 1840. Chiblren,
bom at Woodbury : Julia, luarried Harvey
Perkins: Ann Maria, married Cephas P.each ;
Emily, married Giles Gaylord : Rollin R.,
marriefl Susan M. Kassom an<l removed to
Illinois: Gilman E., mentioned below.
(\"I) Gilman Elbridge. son of Daniel Hill,
wa'i Ixirn in Woodbury, now Bethlehem. Con-
necticut, and resi<led there until 1834, when
he removed to Middlebury, where he lived
until his death. He was a deacon of the
church, and a man of wicle influence in the
commtmity. He represented his rlistrict in the
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CONNECTICUT
general assembly. He married, March 5,
1834, Nancy, daughter of Phineas Crane ( see
Crane VI). Children: Sophia, born 1835;
Oilman Crane, mentioned below.
(VII) Oilman Crane, son of Oilman El-
bridge Hill, was born in Bethlehem, Connec-
ticut, June 13, 1843. He was educated in the
public schools, and has been a manufacturer
all his active life. He has lived in Middle-
bury, Naugatuck, New York City, St. Peter,
Minnesota, and since 1870 in Waterbury, Con-
necticut. In all these cities he has had manu-
facturing interests. He was secretary of the
American Flask and Cap Company from 187 1
to 1876, and since then has been secretary of
the Waterbury Brass Company. In 1890 he
patented a device known as a stubholder. In
politics he is a Republican, in religion a Con-
gregationalist, member of the Second Congre-
gational Church of Waterbury. He was a
member of the old Arcadian Club for amateur
theatricals. During the civil war he was sec-
retary of Company A, Second Regiment, Con-
necticut Militia. He is a director in the Dime
Savings Bank and a corporator of the Water-
bury Savings Bank. He married. May 30,
iS/'S. Charlotte Buckingham, daughter of
Charles Benedict. They have one child, Kath-
erine, who married. April 14, 1904, Dr. Nel-
son A. Pomeroy.
(The Crane Line).
The surname Crane has an ancient English
history dating back to the Hundred Rolls of
the thirteenth century, and was probably a
Norman local name earlier. Its similarity to
the name of a bird has caused some of the
families to adopt the crane as a symbol on
their coat-of-arms, and indeed some branches
of the family may have adopted the emblem
before taking the surname. The coat-of-arms
of the Crane family of Suffolk, England, to
which some if not all the American families
belong, is : Argent a fesse between three
crosses crosslet fitchee gules. Crest : A crane
proper. There have been many distinguished
Englishmen of this name from the earliest
use of the surname. There were a number
of pioneers of this family in Massachusetts
before 1650.
(I) Henry Crane, immigrant ancestor, was
born about 1635, in England, and came to
Wethersfield, Connecticut, as early as 1655.
Here he was associated with his brother Ben-
jamin as a farmer, a tanner and currier of
leather. Soon after 1658 he removed to Guil-
ford, Connecticut, and in 1663 was one of
twelve planters to locate at Hammonnassett,
later known as Killingworth, a place lying be-
tween Ouilford and Saybrook. Up to the
tim.e of his death his name appears often in
the records of the town in connection with
various public trusts, civil, military and re-
ligious. He was made a freeman, September
24, 1669; representative to the general court.
May, 1675 ; chosen lieutenant of Killingworth
train band, in 1676 ; was also justice of the
peace for the county of New London, 1698-
1701-02-03. He was one of the assistants in
the upper house of the general court, October
12, 1665, also in May, 1666. For twenty-
seven years he was representative to the gen-
eral court of Connecticut. As a first settler of
Killingworth he was granted by the town
committee sixteen acres of land. He became
captain of militia, and was frequently called
to serve on committees and arbitrations in-
volving varied and important c^uestions re-
lating to public and private affairs. He mar-
ried (first) Concurrence, daughter of Mr.
John Meigs, of Ouilford, about 1663. She
died in Killingworth, October 9, 1708. He
married (second) December 26. 1709, De-
borah Champion, widow of Henry Champion,
of Lyme, Connecticut. He died April 22,
171 1. Children, recorded in Ouilford: John,
born about 1664 : Elizabeth, about 1666 ; Con-
currence, December 27, 1667, recorded in Kil-
lingworth ; Mary, August 23, 1670 ; Phebe,
December 24, 1672 ; Theophilus, January 5,
1674 : Abigail, April 3, 1676 ; Henry, Octo-
ber 25, 1677, mentioned below ; Mercy, June
21, 1680: Nathaniel, August 7, 1682.
(II) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) Crane,
was born October 25, 1677, in Killingworth,
Connecticut. He married Abigail, daughter
of Robert Flood, of Wethersfield. Connecti-
cut, January 27, 1703-04. He settled in that
part of Killingworth afterwards set off to
Durham, of which he was one of the thirty-
four original proprietors. From 1718 to 1740
he represented the town in the state legisla-
ture, and was justice of the peace for the
county of New Haven from 1728 to the time
of his death. He died April 11, 1741. leav-
ing a large estate for that time. His widow
died August 31. 1754, aged seventy-eight. Chil-
dren : Silas, born January 25, 1705, men-
tioned l^elow ; Concurrence, IMarch 25, 1708;
Henry, March 20, 1710; Abigail, June 6,
1712.'
(III) Silas, son of Henry (2) Crane, was
born January 25, 1705, and settled in Dur-
ham, Connecticut. He received the military
title of sergeant and rendered service during
the French and Indian wars, and was quite
prominent in all matters relating to the wel-
fare of the town, serving on the committee to
settle as to who should serve as pastor of the
church and many other important committees.
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lie roiilecl nii a imrtion I'f tlic seven Inin'ircd
ami til'ty acre farm heloni^im; to his lather,
lie clieil January 15. i~'>V His wife was
Mercy, (lan^liter of Samuel (iriswolil. whom
he marrie<l Xovemlicr 2~. iJ2ij. She died
Auirust J<>, 17S2. Children: Al)it;ail, l)orn
September 10, 1730: Jesse, June 5, 1732:
riiH)d, I'ehruary 12, 1734: Silas, .November
<>■ '".?": I^jbert (Iriswold, I'ehruary 18, 1739,
mentioned below: l-"li, .Xovcmber 27, 1742;
Flood. I'ehruary 27, 1744: Huldah, .Vpril 30.
1747; Ruth. December 12. 1749: hredcrick,
Fci>ruary 24, 1751 : Nathan, Septemlier 18,
I754-
(I\') Robert (Iriswold, son of Silas Crane,
was Ixjrn February i.S. 1739, in Durham. Con-
necticut. He married (first) at Durham, f)c-
tober 31, I7'>5. Mary, daughter of F.leazer
Camp. She died .April 30, 1790, and in l-'cb-
ruary, 1791, he married (second) Sybilla Jud-
soii, who died Jaiuiary 12, 180S. .\fter a few
years' resi<ience at Durham, he removed,
Ai)ril 7, I7'V>, with his family to the town of
Bethlehem. Connecticut, and there lived until
his death, March d, 1820. Children. i)orii at
Durham: Mary. .\uL;ust 7, I7''7: Robert. .No-
vember 12, 1768; born at llethlehem: .Molly,
May 20, 1770: .\chsah, .\pril 7. 1772; Fleazer.
December 28, 1773: Jesse, 1775: riiineas,
mentioned below; October 10, 1777: .'■'arah.
May 2^, 1781.
( \' ) Phineas, son of Robert (iri>wold
Crane, was horn at llethlehem, Connecticut.
October 10, 1777. He married. Jaiuiary 2ji.
1800. Irene, daughter of (lideon and .Abigail
Xichols. She died at Stratford, Connecticut,
March 20, 1836. He was captain of the
militia, and the latter ])art of his life deacon
of the Congregational church. He died at
Bethlehem. Connecticut. November 17, 1839,
aged sixty-two. Chihlren : John N.. horn
March 17. 1801 ; Fanny C, November 28,
1802: Frederick C. January 8, 1805; Cath-
arine, Deceml)er 3, 1806; Gideon, September
24, 1808: Nancy. December 13, 1810, men-
tioned beli>w : .\l)igail. .March (1, 1813: Marv
A.. Decembei 2~. 1814: Phineas M., January
28, i8if): Roiiert. Decemiier 27, 1820: .Nathan.
December 5, i8j2.
(\l) .Nancy, flaughter of Phineas Lrane.
was born December i ^, 1810. She married.
March 5, 1834, (.ilman F. Hill, of Bethle-
hem, Connecticut (see Hill \"I).
Ceorgc Clarke, immigrant an-
C l.ARKF cestor. was liorn in England
and came to this country in
i()37 ill the company of Rev. John Davenport
and his congregation from counties Kent and
Surrev. near London. With him came three
relatives, James, Jf»hn and George Clarke.
.After about a year in Boston, the jiarty lo-
cated at .New Haven, Connecticut, whence in
1(139 they moved to Milford in that colony.
-A tract of three acres, purchased for a com-
mon, is still free from buildings and has iK-en
in the possession of Clarke and his descend-
ants to the present time. It is now owneil
by David Nathaniel Clarke, mentioned be-
low. The First Church of .Milford, of which
George Clarke was a member, was e>tablishcd
.\ugust 22, 1639, anri he was a deacon. Me
became a man of wealth and prominence in
the community. He was a carpenter and
builder, as well as a farmer, and doubtless
built many of the tirst houses in the town.
He died in June, Kk^i. and his wife Mary
also died at Milford. He was a <lepuly to the
general court from Milford, Ch'
Thomas, mentioned below. Sarah, (m
John, .Abigail, l-'lizabeth, Reliecca and .\lai.\.
(H) Thomas, son of George Clarke, was
born in I'.oston in i'>37, died in Milford, Con-
necticut, in 171'). He was a farmer and
owned more land than any other man in Mil-
ford. He married (first) in ifv>3, Hannah,
daughter of William Giliiert. He marrie 1
( seconil ) < irace, widow of .'^amuel Prudden.
Children of first wife: Sarah. Samuel, Thom-
as, mentioned below, lieorge, Joseph antl
Hannah.
(HI) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i)
Clarke, was born at Milford, January 22.
if)88. died there February \2. 1728. He was
also a farmer. He marrieil. .November 22.
1703. Martlia Clarke, of T'armington. ("hil-
dren : .Martha, .\nn, Thomas, Keziah, Jona-
than, Jared. mentioned below.
(I\) Jared, son of Thomas (2) Clarke,
was baptized at Milford, January 28, 1719.
died there May 21, 1789. He followed farm-
ing througii his active life. He married Mar-
tlia Baldwin, baj)tized December 8, 1723. died
l>elore 1770. Children, horn at .Milford:
Davicl. dieil young: Enoch, Tlial, David, men-
tioned below. Hial, Jerusha, .Abel and Martha.
l\ ) David, son of Jared Clarke, was born
in 1751, <licd in 1S31. He was a fanner in
his native town. He was an active patriot
and served in the revolutionary war. He was
with General Washington on Long Island an<l
many interesting incidents of his exjierience
have been preserved by his descendants.
When General Tryon attacked Danbury, Con-
necticut, he. with Justin Wood, .Samuel (^recn
anil irthers. proceeded to the path and from
behind fences and trees shot and killed many
British soldiers. Green was killed. David
Clarke married .Aima Clarke, born in 1755,
died in 1812, daughter of Isaac Clarke, of
I
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CONNECTICUT
what is now the town of Orange, Connecti-
cut, descendant of Dr. Samuel Andrew, one
of the founders and the second president of
Yale College and pastor for fifty-two years
of the First Congregational Church of Mil-
ford, and taught some of the college classes
at his home in Milford. Children, born in
Milford : David. Hannah, Martha, Nancy,
David, mentioned below, John, Samuel, Hial,
Elizabeth. Jerusha. Sarah A., Mary A. and
Mabel ; the last three were by a second mar-
riage.
(VI) David (2), son of David (i) Clarke,
was born November 15, 1782, died January
17, 1853. He was a farmer in Milford and
prominent in public life. In politics he was
a Whig and in religion a Congregationalist.
He married, October 31, 1805, Mary Smith,
born in Milford, November 2, 1784, died Feb-
ruary II, 1857, daughter of Samuel Bryan
Smith, a soldier in the revolution. Samuel
B. Smith was with General Montgomery in
the Quebec Expedition, and was at one time
in command of a vessel which transported
troops across the Great Lakes, and while
there a vessel loaded with British officers and
soldiers drifted ashore in the fog and were
taken prisoners by the Americans. Children :
I. ■Maria, born October 9. 1806; married Den-
nis Beach, a carriage manufacturer of Alil-
ford. 2. Louisa Ann, April 21, 1809, died
unmarried. 3. Laurette, August 19, 181 1;
married Isaac F. Stone, of Orange, a carriage
maker and merchant, who died at Louisville,
Kentucky. 4. Catherine Mary, October 29.
1813; married, April 10, 1834, Elias Clark,
a farmer of Milford; she died in 1901. 5.
]\Iason S., November 11, 1815 ; a wholesale
merchant in New Orleans, Louisiana. 6.
Emily Susan, July 21. 1817; married Lemuel
Powell, of Brooklyn. New York. 7. Julia
Smith, September 29, 1819: married, July 13,
1841, Harvey Beach. 8. David Nathaniel,
mentioned below. 9. Samuel B.. February 19,
1824: a wholesale merchant in New York
City ; married. December 20, 1848, Sarah
Barney Belcher, of Chickopee. 10. Charles
William, September 19, 1827.
(VII) David Nathaniel, son of David (2)
Clarke, was born at Milford. October 8, 1821.
He attended the public schools of his native
town and a class taught by the minister of
the Congregational church before the high
school was established and he was one of
the first pupils in the high school. He was
for a number of years associated with his
brother, Samuel B. Clarke, in commercial
business in New York City. Samuel Bryan
Clarke was afterward a law partner of United
States Senator Elihu Root of New York. Re-
turning to his native town. David Nathaniel
Clarke devoted his attention to farming, in
which he has since been engaged with abun-
dant success. Some of his land has been in
the possession of his family from the time of
the first grant to his pioneer ancestor in 1639,
or soon afterward. With his sons. Air. Clarke
owns and cultivates some three hundred acres
of land in Milford. He was formerly a mem-
ber of Ansantawae Lodge, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, of Milford. In politics he
is a Republican, with a tendency to independ-
ence. He has been selectman and assessor of
the town and held other offices. He is a
prominent member of the Congregational
church, and was one of the first members of
the local order of the Sons of Temperance.
He has always been an earnest and zealous
supporter of the cause of temperance. He
was a soldier in the civil war. but after spend-
ing some time in camp was discharged on
account of ill health. He married, June 19,
1854. Charlotte Ann, born October 23. 1826,
daughter of Newton Piatt, of Milford. and
sister of Lenora S. Piatt. She died October
10, 1866. Her father, Newton Piatt, was
born December 21, 1792, died February 24,
1863 ; married. October 18. 1821. Anna Clarke,
born November 24, 1799. died September 7,
1863. Mr. Clarke married (second) October,
1867, Lenora Sophia Piatt, sister of his first
wife. Children of first wife: i. David Le-
land, mentioned below. 2. Mary Ellen, born
September 5, 1856 ; unmarried ; resides in
Boston. 3. Elbert Newton, mentioned below.
Children of second wife: 4. Charlotte Anna,
born 1869 : married Frank E. Hine. a civil
engineer, residing at Fishers Island. New
York state ; children : Eleanor Clarke Hine,
December 16, 1896: Donald Frank Hine. Jan-
uary 26, 1899 ; \\'inifred Charlotte Hine,
April 27, 1901 ; Esther Josephine Hine. April
18. 1908. 5. \'incent Biddle. born August 8,.
1880: graduate of Yale College in 1902; now
city engineer of Ansonia, Connecticut. 6.
Child, died in infancy.
(\TII) David Lela'nd. son of David Nath-
aniel Clarke, was born at Milford. March 20,
1855. He attended the Milford public schools
and the famous Russell Military School at
New Haven. Connecticut. He then became
associated with his father in the management
of the farm at IMilford. He was for about
thirty years associate editor of the Ansonia
Sentinel, having charge of the Milford de-
partment of that newspaper. He has been
for many years a director of the IMilford Sav-
ings Bank. In politics he is a Republican.
He is clerk of the First Congregational
Church and a prominent and active member.
c:H^.i^,:.^<_ yh^ ^CL.'xVe^
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651
«
lie married, Oclulicr ji). 1S84, iCmma J. Mun-
son, at Milfonl, (laiii^littr of Edward I'reston
and Mary Jane ( I'luinlj) Miins<in. Her
nu»tlicr was born May 5. 183J, died August
20. 1S82. Her {grandfather was Lewis Miin-
son. They trace tlieir ancestry back to Cap-
tain 'I'honias Mnn--i)n. who was one of the
early settlers of New Haven and had an im-
portant part in the life of the New Haven
Colony. Children: David Andrew, fifth of
the name in direct line, l)orn J'.me 24, 1S87;
Emerson Leland, Aiitjnst 3, 1890; Mabel
Agne.-. Au;,aist S, 1893.
( \ HI ) Elbert Newton, son of David Nath-
aniel Clarke, was born September 7, i860, at
Milford. He was educated in the district
school near his home and in the graded schools
of .Milford. At the a-^e of eighteen he en-
gaged in business with his father and brother
under the firm name of D. .V. Clarke & Sons,
farming and market gardening, and continued
until 1894. Since then he has been a general
contractor. His business includes the laying
of concrete and cement walks and iniilding
roai!s, making excavations and fillings. He
also deals in lumber. He has a farm of
twenty-five acres and leases other lands. In
politics he is a Republican. He is a member
of the Milford Driving .\ssociation and of
.\rctic I'ire Com])any, No. i. He and his
family are members of the First Congrega-
tional Church and for five years he served
on its standing committee.
He married, February 18, 1885, Susie I.
Smith. She is an active worker in the I'irst
Congregational Cinirch, a former teacher in
its Sunday school and meTuber of the Ladies'
I'.enevoient I'nion. ."-^he is a charter member
of Deborah Stowe Chainer. Daughters of the
American Revolution. Children : Stanley
Newton, Ixirn December 7, 1887: Mildred
Leanora, June 19, 1891 : Florence Isabel,
March 14. 1897; Marjorie Theresa. Septem-
ber 18. 1898.
The .Smith family settled in Milford in
colonial days. The great-grandfather of
Susie I. (Smith) Clarke, Isaac Smith, her
grandfather. Nathan Smith, and her fatlier,
E. Stiles Smith, were shoemakers. Her father
married Maria Theresa I'latt, a native of Mil-
ford, daughter of Jonah Piatt, granddaughter
of I'isk Piatt. Her twin sister, Sailic T.
Smith, born I-'ebruary 13, 1862, marrieil
Charles S. Clarke, a seedsman of W'akeman.
Ohio: her brother, b'rank W. Smith, of New-
Haven, married Carrie \V. I'.eard. of .Milford.
Through her mother's family, Mrs. Elbert N.
Clarke descends in the tenth generation from
William l-'owler. who came to Connecticut
with Daven])ort and was one of the founders.
.She was si.vth in <lescent from Captain John
I'owlcr, who was commissioned by the gen-
eral assembly, captain of the second company
or train Kind of the .Second Regiment in the
revolution, and he alM> serverl the town and
coinitry by raising iriKips I'-' •''■ ■■■'•". "'il
army. Mrs. Clarke is also •''
her mother's family from '
Pond and Sir Charles Hobby. • lie lalltr was
an officer in the colonial wars and was one of
the six .\merican> knighted at Windsor
Castle in 1705. He wa- the ancestor of Mary
Hobby, who married /achariah HuKlir.l
their daughter, Mary Hubbard, marrie''
Pond anil were parents of Captain <
Pond, the first ensign in CajUain i; :i:-
Peret's company. Colonel Charles \\'ebb'- n ;^i-
ment. at the siege of iJoston : commissioned
as fir>t lieutenant, January 17, 177''): in com-
mand of the war vessel "Schuyler" which
captured the P.ritish ship "Crawford" and a
sloop: he ca[itnred three prizes in 1776 and
rcca])tured various .American vessels and
stores taken at Long Islaml: was in tlie battle
of White Plains; crossed the Delaware with
Washington in December, 1777. and was in
the battle of Princeton : was commissioned
captain. January 1, 1777, resigning .\pril 20,
1779, to take command of the war vessel
"New Defense," which was taken by the P.rit-
ish after an engagement, and he was confined
in the jirison shiji "Jersey," but soon after-
ward exchanged : was a member of the So-
ciety of Cincinnati: married Martha Miles;
their daughter Sally married William Herpin
l-'owler. and their daughter, Sarah Fowler,
married Jonah' Piatt, maternal grandfather of
Mrs. Clarke, mentioned above.
fll) Ensign George, son of
CL.\RK Deacon deorge Clarke (q. v.)
(as he spelled the name), was
born in Milford. in i'>47. died there July 19,
1734. He married Delxirah Gold. He was
one of tho-.e who negotiated for the jmrchase
from the Indians, February 29. 1700. of the
land on which the Clark family still resides.
Mr. David Clark now lives on the homestead,
and opposite his house is a stone on which he
has inscriiied the names of all the owMiers.
(HI) Captain Nathan, son of F"-i""
George Clark married .Abigail N'
descendant of Rev. Roger Newton, first 1
of the church in Farmington and second pas-
tor in Milford. succeeding Rev. Peter Pnidden.
(I\') Nathan (2"). S(mi of Captain Nathan
( I ) Clark, was born .\u'.:ust, I74'>. died July
12, 1819. He married .Mabel Treat, lKirn 1753,
ilied July i, 1828, descendant of Governor
Robert Treat.
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CONNECTICUT
(V) Nathaniel, son of Nathan (2) Clark,
it is belie\-ed, was born in ^lilford, Connecti-
cut.
(\T) Nehemiah, son of Nathaniel Clark,
was born November 24, 1783. He settled in
Salisbury, formerly Milford, Connecticut, died
there June 2, 1871. He was a farmer and
miller and owned much land. He married
Polly Walton, born 1787, died April 20, 1837.
Children: Delia M., born December 25, 1810;
Nathaniel W., February 19, 18 14, died May
31, 1883; George Baldwin, mentioned below:
Henry A., June 19, 1819, died December 9,
1872;' Mary, May 24, 1822, died March 25,
1888 : Andrew, June 26, 1828, drowned June
14, 1842: Sarah, November 28, 1829, died
July 24, 1875.
(VH). George Baldwin, son of Nehemiah
Clark, was born in Salisbury, March 6, 181 7,
died March 26, 1895. He was a farmer, liv-
ing in the south part of the town, and owned
much real estate there. In politics he was a
Democrat and served the town as selectman.
He represented the town in the general as-
sembly. He married (first) December 30,
1845, Betsey A. Hamlin, of Sharon, Connec-
ticut, born November 5, 1824, died November
27, 1853, daughter of Benjamin and Betsey
Hamlin. He married (second) November 22,
1866, Jane, born at Salisbury, I\Iarch 18, 1834,
now living in Salisbury, daughter of James
and Jane (Heath) Landon, and granddaugh-
ter of Ashbel and Loraine ( Chapman ) Lan-
don. Children of first wife: George H., men-
tioned below : Ambrose R., born September
19, 1853, died May 11, 1880. Child of second
wife : Jennie L., born October 20, 1868, lives
with her mother in Salisbury.
(VIII) George Hamlin, son of George
Baldwin Clark, was born in Salisbury, Con-
necticut, April 2, 1847. He was educated in
the district schools of his native town and at
the Rogers School for Boys at New Milford,
Connecticut. He worked with his father on
the farm until after he was twenty-one years
old. In 1875 he came to the village of Salis-
bury to take a position as clerk in the store
of his brother, Ambrose R. Clark, general
merchant. In 1876 he bought the business,
and since then has been a merchant of promi-
nence in this section. He owns two stores in
Salisbury, a dry goods store and a general
store, carrying also hardware and tools, in
addition to dry goods and groceries. He also
has a half interest in a drug store in that
village. He is associated with Judge Donald
T. Warner in agricultural business. He is
president of the Cutlery and Handle Company,
in Salisbury. In politics he is a Democrat,
and has been town clerk and tov.n treasurer
fur about twenty-five years. He has repre-
sented the town for three terms in the gen-
eral assembly. He was state senator in 1902-
03. He is a member of Salisbury Lodge, No.
56, Knights of Pythias, and has been its
treasurer from the time of organization. He
is treasurer of the Men's Club, Salisbury, and
has been from the first. He is a prominent
member and a vestryman of the Protestant
Episcopal church. He married, October 25,
1882, Mary E. Ball, of Salisbury, daughter of
Robert and Elizabeth (Stiles) Ball. They
have no children.
Lieutenant ^^'illiam Clarke, im-
CLARK migrant ancestor, was born in
Dorsetshire, England, in 1609.
Family tradition says that he came to New
England in the ship "Mary and John," leav-
ing Plymouth, England, March 30, 1630. His
name also appears in the list of passengers in
the "]\Iary and John" which sailed from Lon-
don, March 24, 1633. He settled at Dorches-
ter before 1635, where he was a prominent
citizen, selectman, 1646-50. In 1653 he was
one of the petitioners to settle in Northamp-
ton, and he removed there in 1659. His wife
rode on horseback with two baskets or pan-
niers slung across the horse, carrying a boy
in each basket and one on her lap, her hus-
band, fifty years old, preceding on foot. He
was granted twelve acres on the west side of
what is now Elm street, bordering on Mill
river, and comprising to-day the north half
of the campus of Smith College. He built a
log house where he lived until 1681, when it
was burned, being set on fire by a negro. Jack,
a servant of Samuel Wolcott, who took a
brand of fire from the hearth and swung it
up and down to "find victuals." The new
house built in its place remained standing
until 1826. Lieutenant Clarke organized in
1661 a train band of sixty men, which he com-
manded in King Philip's war. He served as
selectman twenty years, and was also judge of
the county court. He died at Northampton,
July 18, 1690, and in 1884 a monument was
erected to his memory bv his descendants.
The old gravestone is still preserved. He
married (first) Sarah (?), who died Septem-
ber 16, 1675; (second) November 15, 1676,
Sarah Cooper, who died May 6, 1688. Chil-
dren: Sarah, born 1638: Jonathan, 1639;
Nathaniel, 1642: Experience, 1643; Increase,
1646: Rebecca, 1648; John, 1651 ; Samuel,
1653: William, 163^1, mentioned below; Sarah,
1659.
(II) Ca|)tain William Clarke, son of Lieu-
tenant William Clarke, was born in Dorches-
ter, July 3, i65(:). He removed from North-
aJNNlXTlCLT
653
.'iinptiin. wluTf Ik- had mmc witli Ins parents,
to l.ebainn, L tmnccticnt. and was one i>f tlic
])iirchasers i>( what was known as the Llarke
and Dewey juirchase, in the northern part of
the town, lie was one of the orii^inal pro-
1 rietorv of the town and was the first repre-
M-niative from the town to the f^eneral court,
in 1705. serving; l'>r thirteen years. lli- was
a selectman sixteen years, and town clerk
twenty-tive years, 1700-1725. He was cap-
tain of militia, serving in the Indian wars,
lie married (tirst). at .\'orthami)toii. July 15,
l(>So, Hannah Stronj;. who died J.iiui.iry 31,
1694, dan^rhter of KIder John ami Ahitjail
(Ford) Stront;. He m.irried (second) i»ir>4.
M.nry Smith, who died Ai)ril 23, 174S. Ik-
died at I.ehanon. May 21). 1725. Children:
Hannah. Iiorn iTtSj; Ahitrail. I'lS^: William.
1685: Jonathan, i(i8.S, mentioned helow :
Thomas. ii^)o: Joseph, ifxji ; I'.cnoni, i(>93,".
Timothy, ifH)-, : ricrshoni, 1607.
(HI) Jonathan, son of Captain William
Clarke, was Ixirn at N'orthampton. May 13,
i(^i8S. died at Lebanon, January 12, 1744. He
wa'- a farmer there, ami marrieil, January f\
1714, H.innah Smalley. He hatl a son Jona-
than, mentioned liclow.
( I\' ) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (\\
Clarke, was horn at Lebanon, Xovcmber i.
1715. died there in 1800. He was a farmer
.•md selectTnan of the town in 1757. He in-
herited a lar^e estate, which he sold, and lost
his fortune throuijh the depreciation of cur-
rency ihiriuL; the revolution. He married.
January \f\ 17.^5. Mercy Dewey. br>rti .\pril
I. 1714. in Lebanon, <Iau,i,diter of William and
Mercy ( r.a.t,dey ) Dewey. Children: Hannah,
horn 1735: Jonathan, 1737. nientiDued below:
Dan. 1741 : Mercy, 1745: David. 1748: ( iideon
( r) : Zerviah. 1751 : Lemuel. 1753: Cicrshom,
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(\) Jonathan (3) Clark (as he spelled the
name"), son of Jonathan (2) Clarke, was born
;it Lebanon, .\pril 20. 1737. died there Sep-
tember 28. 1772. He married. March 20.
I75''>, Dorothy, dausjbter of dideon ami Re-
becca (^Ordawa\) limit. Children: (iideon,
Ixirn 1750. mentioned l>elow: Olive. I7ri2 (see
Lebanon Town Records. Old liook, p. 3''>8).
(\'I) Captain (iideon Clark, son of Jona-
than (31 Clark, was born in Lebanon, .\pril
i^'. 1750. died January 2, 1835. in Columbia.
Connecticut, formerly a part of Lebanon. He
was a farmer and succeeded to the farm of bis
wife's father at Lebanon. He was a soldier
in the revolution, and in 1832 wa> a iiensioner
liviny; in Tolland county. Connecticut (Cmin.
Rev. RolL. p. r>;(i). He married. April to.
I7<*^7. Icmima Xewcomb. born (~)ctolier 24,
I75ri. daui;bter of I'eter (5); Hezckiah (4):
.Simon (3); Lieutenant .\n<Irew ( 2 ): Captain
.Andrew .Newcomb ( i i. Her mother was
Hannah, dai-^liter of Richard and Marv Knf;-
lish, formerly <>{ liriMol, Rhode Island. She
was born in Lebanon. .September n>. 1722.
Her t;ran<hnothcr was Jenisha (Itradfonl)
Newcomb, (laughter of Thomas (31: .Major
William (2); ( iovernor William Itrailiord
( I ». of the ".Mayllower" and "I'lymonth."
Children: Dorothy, Ixirn October 3, 1788;
Cliester, .Xjiril j(>. ijiin; ( )rren. January 28,
1702; Hannah. Sejitember 7, I7'i3; Lucy. .\u-
fftist 28, 17(^3 : Charles, mentioned Ik-Iow.
(\II) Charles, son nl Captain ( iide<in
Clark, was lK>rn in Lebanon, now Columbia,
September 30, 1707, ilie<l in Lnticid, April 3,
1807. He married, in Lnfield. Jtmc 21, 1832,
Dorothy, daii'^diter of Captain John Kinij 1 3 I ;
Joel (4); Itenjamin (3): j'.enjamin (2):
James ( r ). of Suffield, Connecticut. She was
born in b'ufield, bebruary 24, 1814, died in
Melrose, .Xui^u-t 11. 18S7. Her mother was
.Mice I'.utton. of jlntield. Children: .Maln-I.
born 1831, marrieil Joseph .Xhlwit Thompson,
of Melrose. 1838: .Mmira Kini;. 1835, mar-
ried John van l!euran C"i Mimes, of Lonn-
mcailow, .Massachu-^etts. i8^S; Charles Wal-
lace, 1830. marrie<l Helen Ksthcr Gark, of
Lnfield. 18(13: .Mahlon Xewconib, mentioned
below.
(\'III) Mahlon Newcomb, son of Charles
Clark, was born in Lnfield, .^eptemlKr 20,
184(1. died at Hartford. November 14, 1004.
He married, at Hartford. .September 20, 1800,
.Marv .Mice, ilaut^hter of Hiram Haven (7).
of Shrewsbury, .Massachusetts, and Hartford,
Connecticut: Moses (Ci): Lemuel (31; Moses
(4): Joseph (31: Mo-es (2): Richard (i),
of Lyim, Massachusetts. She was born in
Hartford. December 12, 1849. Her mother
was .Adeline Olivia I^imhert, lv)rn March 12,
1818. parents unknown. .She was possibly the
niece of William Lambert, who appears in
Iioston abfiut that time, for she used to spc.ik
of an I'nde William, who lived in I'.ovton
when she was a chibl. Mahlon Newcomb
Clark was connected with the l'hoeni\ Insur-
ance (."ompany, of Hartford. Connecticut, as
chief clerk and ca-hier. for aUmt thirty-three
years and until the time of his death. Chil-
dren: Charles Mahlon. I)orn Jime 21, 1870.
died April 17. 1872: Walter Haven, men-
tioned below.
(IX) Walter Haven, son of Afahlon New-
comb Clark, was horn at Hartford. January
20. 1872. He attended the ptdilic scluxils and
1,'raduated from the Hartford high school in
the class of 1802. He entered Vale CnllcKe,
from which he was graduated in |8«K>. and
studied his profession in the Yale I-aw .School.
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where he received his degree with the class
of 1899. He was admitted to the Hartford
county bar in 1898. After his graduation he
formed a partnership with Judge WiUiam A.
Arnold, of Willimantic, under the firm name
of Clark & Arnold, with offices in the First
National Bank Building, 50 State street,
Hartford, and has continued in general prac-
tice in this firm to the present time. He was
president of the common council board of
Hartford in 1902 and represented Hartford
in the general assembly in 1905. In 1903 he
was appointed associate judge of the Hart-
ford police court, and since January i, 1908,
has been judge of this court, being appointed
by Governor Woodruff, succeeding Judge
Garvan. Judge Clark is a member of the
prudential committee of the Farmington Ave-
nue Congregational Church of Hartford. He
married, June 26, 1902, Julia Ellen Gilman,
of Hartford, daughter of Judge George S. and
Ellen (Hills) Gilman. J\Irs. Clark is a grad-
uate of Smith College, class of 1896. They
have one child, Eleanor Mary, born March
6, 1904.
Thomas Clark, immigrant ances-
CLARK tor, was born in England, 1599,
and first appeared in this country
as a settler in July, 1623, when he arrived at
Plymouth in the "Anne," in a company of
forty-two adult passengers, besides children.
He brought with him considerable property,
especially cattle, and had land allotted to him
near Eel River, now Chiltonville. There is a
general tradition among the descendants of
the Pilgrims, and particularly among the de-
scendants of Thomas Clark, that he was the
Thomas Clark who was one of the mates of
the "Mayflower," and gave his name to Clark's
island, of which he took possession, December
8, 1620. This tradition, however, has never
been verified. In 1627 he was the only per-
son of that name in Plymouth Colony. In
documents of the period he is called variously
a carpenter, yeoman, merchant or gentleman.
In 1633 he took the freeman's oath, and in
1637 headed the list of volunteers to act
against the Pequot Indians, being then men-
tioned as of Eel River. In 1640 he is in-
cluded in the list of fifty-eight "purchasers
or old comers" in Plymouth. In 1641-43-44-
45-46-47 he was constable and surveyor of
highways. In 1643 be was in the list of the
men of the colony able to bear arms. In 165 1
and 1655 he was representative to the general
court, and was at one time employed to audit
the accounts of the colony. Between 1655
and 1660 he removed to Boston, where he
lived in the vicinity of Scotto's Lane. His son'
Andrew married Mehitable, daughter of
Thomas Scotto, and Thomas Clark gave him
a house in that region. When the son An-
drew removed to Harwich Thomas Clark ap-
pears to have followed him, and the two
were among the earliest proprietors of that
town. In his latter days he lived with his
daughter, Susanna Lothrop, at Barnstable.
From 1654 to 1697 he was a deacon of the
Plymouth church. He married (first), about
1634, Susan or Susanna, daughter of widow
Mary Ring, of Plymouth. All his children
were probably of this marriage. He married
(second) Mrs. Alice Nichols, daughter of
Richard Hallett, in Boston, 1664. He died in
Plymouth, March 24, 1697, and was buried on
the summit of Burying Hill, where his grave-
stone is still to be seen. Children (dates of
birth conjectural) : Andrew, 1635 ; James,
1637; ^^'illiam, 1639: Susanna, 1641 : Nath-
aniel, 1643; John, 1645 oi" 1651.
ill) Andrew, son of Thomas Clark, was
born in 1635, and when a young man removed
to Boston, where his name is found in the
tax lists for 1674. He was in the shoe busi-
ness, and lived in Scotto's Lane, where his
father bought him a house. He was assistant
counsellor, and several times representative
to the general court. He removed to Har-
wich, of which he was one of the original pro-
prietors, in 1694. He married, 1671, in Bos-
ton, Mehitable, daughter of Thomas and Joan
(Sanford) Scotto, baptized February 11,
1649. The family of Scotto was of some note
in the early history of Boston. They are said
to trace back to the year 1120, and the name
was originally Scot-howe, which signified a
portion of the hillside. In the early records
it is variously written Scotto, Scottoe, Scottow
and Scottoa. They came from Norwich, Nor-
folk county, England, and were cabinet-mak-
ers by trade. The immigrant ancestors con-
sisted of a widow, Thomasine Scotto, and
her two'sons, Thomas, born 1612, and Joshua,
1 61 5. She was admitted to the First Church
in 1634 and the sons in 1639. In the "Book
of Possessions" Thomas Scotto is put down
as the owner of a house afid garden in School
street, four acres of land at Muddy River
(Brookline), and a marsh at the same place.
The property on School street descended to
his great-great-grandson. Dr. Samuel Clark,
and remained in the family until 1825, when
Dr. Clark sold it to the city, and it now forms
a part of City Hall Square. Thomas Scotto
was overseer of graves, gates and fences in
1644, and in Town Records, February. 1646,
appears the following: "Thomas Scotto to
see yt ye graves be digged five foot deep."
He died in 1661. His brother, Joshua, was
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one 1)1 tlic toiin(lcr> til llic .->Miuh i imicli. 1662.
In UfSy he was, by commission from James
II., chief justice of the court of common pleas
for the province of Maine. He was the author
of two tracts, "Old Men's Tears," ])rintc(l in
1691, and "Planting of the Massachusetts
Colony, 1694." llis house was in Sudbury
street, and he died January 20, i(x)S. aged
eigiily-tiiree. .Andrew Clark ilied in Har-
wich, in 1706. Children of .\ndrew Clark:
Thomas, born July 10, 1672; Susanna, March
12, 1^)74: Andrew, 1678; Scotto, 1680 (men-
tioned below): Nathaniel, if'^Sj; Mchitable,
December 8. 1686.
(Ilh Scotto, son of .\ndrew Clark, was
born in Harwich, 1680, married, 17CXJ, Mary
. Me is styled in deed>, ".Scotto Clark,
miller." Chiblren: .\ndrew, lM>rn December
1. 1707: Scotto, November 8, 1709 (mentioned
below): Mary, .\pril 7. 1712; Josc])h and
lienjamin (twins), January 8, 1714; I.ytlia,
1717: Nathaniel. June 19, 1710: Sarah, 1721 ;
Ebenezer, June 3, 1723: Seth, June 19, 1726.
(I\) Scotto (2), son of Scotto (i) Clark,
wa> liorn November 8. 1709, married. March
22, 1733. Thankful Crosby, born February 7,
1714. (lied December 17, 1802. He died .\u-
gust 31, 1795. He was a master mariner, and
nine of his eleven sons were whalemen. One
of them was killed by a whale, in sight of his
father, who commanded the Iwat. Children,
born in Harwich: Elisha. May 14, 1734;
Reuben, .\ugust i. 1735: TuUy. November 30,
1736, killed by a whale: Mark, born May 3,
1738: William. January 14. 1740: Mercy. .\u-
gust 9, 1741 ; P.arnabas, March 9, 1743: Scotto,
September 22. 1745: James. January 6, 1747;
.\bigail, September 7, 1748: Roland. Febru-
ary iR. 1730: Joshua, December 4, 1732: Fes-
senden. October 8. 1734: Thankful, October
22, J757-
(V") Elisha. son of Scotto (2") Clark, was
born May 14, 1734. at Harwich, married,
February 14. 1760, Hannah Hopkins, l)orn
March 28, 1733. He settled in Conway, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1774. and died there. Septem-
ber 0, 181 I. His wife died October 22. 1813.
Children, all but the last two born in Har-
wich: Judah. November 22. 1760: Mercy,
.April 24, 1/62: Hannah. November 20. 1763;
Elisha. .August 29. 1763: Scotto, July 14,
1767: Oliver. July 3, 1769: Tabitha, Novem-
ber I. 1771: Thomas. November 16. 1774:
Thankful. September 7. 1776.
(\ I") Judah. son of Elisha Clark, was born
November 22. 1760. married. October 12,
1788, .Abigail Freeman, born July 28, 1768,
died October 10. 1S33. Judah was a soldier
of prominence in the revoIuticDn. His name
appears in a descriptive list of men raised ti
remlonr iin- i, oninKi ■
for the term of si.x 1
resolve dated June 5. 17" .
as receive<l by Justin I'.ly,
I'.rii;r»dier Oiierrtl < ilnrer, at
<>. Ik w.
• four inch.
company 1
at C'amp '1 ■
charged Deninbci 23 i«ill>i\\inn. lie li.iu 1
been in the service in (":ipt:un l-'li l'.irk'>
pany. Colonel Leoiii
1 lampshire county, in
I'omeroy's company.
regiment, in New \i<\ .
in Captain Elijah Dv\ i
I-!li<lia Porter's regiment, 111 1779. an»l l.iti; in
Cajuain .Abel Dinsmoor's companv. Colond
Pt>rter's regiment, in 1779. at N^ '
Connecticut. He died .Ma\ i';, 1^
way. Children. Ix^rn in Conwa\
September 1 1, 1789; Hannah, October 4
diefl October 31, 1790: Freeman, Ixirn N-
ber 28, 1791. "lied February 23, 1702. I'.'U,
born October 30, 1792. died .November 14,
1702: .Abigail, born October 3. 1793, die' ' •■
uary 21, 1794: Freeman, Ixirn .May 2j^.
Henry, February 26, 1797: Edmund, J i
27. 1799; William. May 9, 1801 : A'
.April 28. 1803, died September 2. 1803 :
low. torn .August 29, 1804 (mentioned he
low).
(\TI) W'inslow, son of Judah Clark, was
born .August 29, 1804, married. June 3. 1830,
llet.sey L. P.ardwell. born .April 2. 1810. He
was a farmer and fuller by i:)ccupatir>n and
lived in Shelburne. Massachusetts. He tlicd
there, November 12. 1881. Children, born in
Shelburne: i. William Henry, .Augusts. 1831.
2. Joel Itardwell, September 14, 1833. 3. .Abi-
gail Freeman, January 2^. 1838. married
Daviil Hunter, of Greenfield, Massachii^cffs.
deceased. 4. Judah Winslow, born Mar. • ,
1843 (mentioned below). 5. Lydia Ni
October 14. 1843. married Charles Purin^;-ii.
6. r.etsey Slaria, Iwrn Deceinl)cr 3. 1853, lives
in Cireenfield.
(\III) Judah Winslow, son of Winslow
Clark, was born March 29, 1843. in Shelburne.
died in Terryville. Connecticut. February 3,
i8<)6. He was educated in Shelburne .Acad-
emy, but left the town at the age of twenty-
one years and went to Terryville. where he
became identified with the .Andrew Terry Com-
pany, inanufacturers of malleable iron. He
afterwards became superintendent and held
the position f'lr many years. He was then
made director, and alxiut i8.S<) secretary and
treasurer, whicli (wisition be held until his
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death He was a trustee of the Bristol Sav-
ings Bank and took an interest in the schools
of the town of Terr_vville. In religion he was
a Congregationalist. He married, May 5,
1868, Eliza Augusta, daughter of Alexander
and Lydia (Gaylord) Pond (see Pond VI).
She was born in Plymouth, Connecticut. June
19, 1845. Children: i. IMaljel. ^larch 31,
1869. 2. George Clififord, .\ugust 21, 1872,
mentioned below.
(IX) George Clifford Clark, son of Judah
Winslow Clark, was born in Terryville, Au-
gust 21, 1872. He was educated in the
schools of his native town, in the Hartford
High School and the Sheffield Scientific
School, Yale University, from which he grad-
uated in 1893. He then entered the Andrew
Terry Company's plant, and has been identi-
fied with it ever since. In i8g6 he was made
secretary and in 1898 secretary and treasurer.
He was one of the organizers of the Terry-
ville Savings Bank, and was made its first
president, which position he still holds. He is
also a director of the bank, and of the An-
drew Terry Company. He has been a mem-
ber of the Republican town committee for
many years, and is at present its chairman.
He is also a member of the Connecticut Sons
of the .American Revolution, and of the Con-
ffresational church. He is unmarried.
The Wilcox family is of Saxon
\\TLCOX origin and was seated at Bury
St. Edmunds, county Suffolk,
England, before the Norman Conquest. Sir
John Dugdale, in the visitation of the county
of Suffolk, mentioned fifteen generations of
the family previous to the year 1600. This
traces the lineage back to the year 1200, when
the surname came into use as an inherited
family name. On old records the spellings
Wilcox, Wilcockson, Wilcoxon and Wilcox
are used interchangeably.
( I ) John Wilcox lived in Hartford, Con-
necticut, and was chosen surveyor in 1643-44;
he served as selectman in 1650. He died in
1 65 1 : his will was dated July 24, 1651, and
he was probably buried in the Center Church
burying ground in Hartford. His wife died
about 1668. Children : John, mentioned be-
low ; Sarah, married John Bidwell ani settled
in Middletown : .\nn, born about 1616, mar-
ried John Hall, Jr., and settled in Middletown.
(II) John (2). son of John (i) Wilcox,
was born in England and came to Hartford-
with his father. He removed to Middletown
Upper Houses, where he died May 24, 1676.
He had agreed to settle in Middletown, but
failing: to do so promptly, the general court
in 1653 voted to compel him to occupy his
grant or find a substitute. On March 10,
1657, he bought the homesteads of Joseph
Smith and Matthias Treat, and afterwards
sold them to his cousin, Samuel Hall. In 1659
he was on the committee on roads, and June
30, 1660. he was granted lands at Wongunk.
It has been claimed that he removed to Dor-
chester for a few years. He purchased land
and built a house, before November i, 1665,
on land later occupied by the Beaumont-IIan-
mer House. He married (first) September
17, 1646, Sarah Wadsworth, who died 1649,
daughter of W'illiam Wadsw'orth. He mar-
ried (second) January 18, 1650, Catherine,
daughter of Thomas Stoughton, of Windsor,
who built the stone house or fort. He mar-
ried (third) Mary, widow of Joseph Farns-
worth and Long. She died in 1671
and he married (fourth) Esther, born May,.
1650, died May 2, 1733, daughter of William
Cornwall. Sh& married (second) John Stow,
of Middletown. Child of first wife : Sarah,
born October 3, 1648, died December 3, 1727.
Children of second wife : John, born October
29, 1650. died young; Thomas, died young;
Mary. November 13. 1654, died young; Israel,
June 19, 1656, mentioned below ; Samuel, No-
vember 9, 1658. Children of fourth wife:
Ephraim, July 9. 1672; Esther, December 9,
1673; Mercy, March 9, 1675-76.
(Ill) Israel, son of John (2) Wilcox, was
born in Middletown, June 19, 1656, died De-
cember 20, 1689. He married. March 26,
1678, Sarah Savage, born July 30, 1657, died
February 8, 1724, daughter of John Savage.
Children: Israel, born January 16, 1680;
John, July, 1682 ; Samuel, September 26,
1685, mentioned below; Thomas, July, 1687;
Sarah, November 30, 1689.
(I\') Samuel, son of Israel Wilcox, was
born in East Berlin, September 26, 1685, died
January 19, 1727. He married, March 3,
1714-15, Hannah, daughter of John Sage. She
married (second) Malachi Lewis, and died
.April, 1737. Samuel had four children, of
whom one was Daniel, mentioned below.
(V) Daniel, son of Samuel Wilcox, was
born in East Berlin, December 31, 171 5. He
was a large landholder, and gave each of his
children a farm. He also laid out sixty rods
for a burying ground, now known as the Wil-
cox cemetery, in the village of East Berlin.
He died July 29, 1789, of apoplexy. On his
gravestone is the following: "He was the
Father of 13 children, 62 grand children &
?i3 great grand children.
"I grve ihis ground
I'm laid here fir,st
Soon my remains
Will turn to dust.
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My wife and progeny arniuid
Conu' sli'cp with nic
In this culd ground".
lie married, March 16, 1737, Sarah White,
burn April 22, 1716. died June 28, 1807,
(laiif^hter of Daniel White and a descendant
of John White, the iniinij;rant ance-^tor.
throuf^h Daniel (4), Daniel (3). Nathaniel
(2). The inscri])tion on her gravestone >ays :
"She was the mother of 13 children, 70 i;rand
children, 191 j,'reat j^raiul children. iS -reat
j^reat j,'ran<l children, total 2t)j
"Beneath thi^ stone
My dusi it Mes,
Till the last trumpet
Shakes the Skies.
Children and friends,
I warn you all
Lerisi suddenly
Your Judge Should call."
Children: I^ois, born June 14, 1738, dieil .\u-
},'iist 18, 18415: Sarah, December 31. I73i>:
Daniel, November 17, 1741, "died in \c camp
at Ro.xbnry" : David. Sei)tember 24. 1743,
ilied ( )ctober 1, I7()j, "at the Havannah." a
])risoner of war; llepzibah, January 31, 1745.
died 1821 : Stci'hen. October 19, ij^f*, tlied
December 31. 1843: >ervcd in the revohition ;
lluldah. May 24. 1748: Josiah. May 31. 1750;
< )Iive. ( )ctober lU, 175 1 : Samuel. September
12, 1753. mentioned below: Isaac. .\u!.;ust 14.
1755. died mnnarried, .Xciveinber 2j^, 1773.
serve<l in the revoluiion : Jacob, June 21, 1758,
died March 15, 1841. in the revolution: Pa-
tience, Jainiary 4. ijito. died Scjjteniber 2,
1810.
( \'l I Samuel (2), son of Daniel Wilcox,
was born September 12, 1753. in Rast Merlin,
died .March 12, 1832. He lived in what was
known as the Heald house. He married
(first) May 28, 1778, in Middletown. Phebe.
born May 2i<. 1739. died March 9. 1796.
daut^hter of Richard Dowtl. He married
(second) .^arah. born I'ebruary 17. 1757. died
February 2U. i82(). dautjliter of Rlisha Sav-
age, who was in the revolution. Elisha was
son of William (3). son of William (2). son
of John Savage, the iminiirrant. He married
(third) Rebecca, born December 12. 1762,
died May, 1844. sister to Sarah Savage. Chil-
dren : Ricbarcl. born (October 24, 1780, died
Se]>tember 3. 1839: Pienjamin. June 2y, 1782.
mentioned below: Daniel. Jinie 2~. 1783; Syl-
vester, .\i)ril 20, 1788, died July 23. 1834.
(\'I1) P.enjamin. son of Samuel (2) Wil-
cox, was bi>rn June 2~. 1782. in F-last Iterlin.
died May 10. 1843. He and Shubael Pat-
terson were the first to utilize the waters of
the Mattabcsit or Sebethe river for manu-
facturing purjioses. They erecteil in what is
now Fast I'.erlin a mill for spimiing cotton
yarn to b* put out to women to Ik; woven ^v
them vn hand linnns. This property pa
the Rovs & Wilcox Companv. tlu-n
Peck. .Stow& Wilcv ■
ried ( first 1 I'ebruary -
l.orn June 25. 1787,
daughter of Selah Sa\
of I'.unkcr Hill, and I
age, ICIi^ha Savage (41, iici;
lition : William 1 3 1 : W illiin
age, the iinmigranl. He hi.uik.i • •
Hep/ibah Wilo.x ( lalpin. C'hililren:
porter, born January 17, 1808. died beb:
17. 1832; .Samuel Curtis. DecemlMrr 11, i«n.
mentioned below : F.dward. .\pril 22, 1815.
(\IH) -Samuel Curtis, son of ISeni.iiiiii
Wilcox, ua- Iwirn in F.a>t I'.erlin, Dec.
II. 181 1. <lied September 21. |8».. II.
brought up on his father's farm, ati
school at P.allston Sj a. .New York, and 1 1
-chool for several years. He returne<l t" r. 1
lin and established a general store. IK- i\.r.
eled south by team and established a sjnular
store at Washington, .North Carolina, on-
ducting these for many years. He then es-
tablished a tinware factory under the firm
name of Carpenter, Lamb & Wilcox. The
factory was located on land now owned by
the Wilcox family and rented to H. H.
Damon, the original buildiir. • ' '• Mr
Wilcox having since been ri Mr
Damon. It was the first tr ry in
the L'nited .States atid started wiili thirty
hands. The firm quickly developed a wide
atid jirofitable trade, esix-cially through the
southern states. .Ml kinds of tinware were
tnaiuil'actured, and the business was continued
for fifteen years. In 1843 .Mr. Wilci>\ estab-
lished at East Merlin a small manufactory lor
tinmen's tools and tnachines. atui from this
nucleus there came the widely known firm of
the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company. The lat-
ter was establisheil in 1870. on the consolida-
tion of eight similar factories, seven iti Con-
necticut, and one in Cleveland, Ohiti, and etn-
ploys several thotisand hands, with a capital
of Si. 300.000. Mr. Wilcox was vice-president
of this company until his death. When the
Corrugated .Metal IJmipany of I ■ • i-'"-
was in financial straits. Mr. Wil<
the resctie. Through his advice, :
struction was added to its scope, and in 1871
the Ilerfin Iron I'ridge Company came into
existence, with Mr. Wilcox as president. He
retained the office until his deatlt. and through
his excellent judgment ami business ability
the struggling business was transforine<l into
one of P.erlin's proinlest industries. It is one
of the largest and most prosperous com|)anies
of its kind in the United States, employing
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nearly a thousand men, and steadily growing
in influence and trade. To this business he
devoted most of his attention and- to his efforts
it owes its prosperity. It is to-day one of
the most prominent bridge firms in the world,
and has constructed some of the finest engin-
eering structures in both the old and new
continents. Among its contracts was a build-
ing in Berlin, Germany, which cost $50,000,
and the machinery building for the Paris Ex-
position of 190D. jNlr. Wilcox was a stock-
holder and director of^ many enterprises. In
politics he was a Democrat. For its substan-
tial growth and development Berlin owes much
to him. He was an accurate judge of human
nature, kind in disposition ; he was at the same
time a man of strong convictions, to which he
was ever true.
He married (first) July 20, 1836, Eliza
Anne Parsons, born JNIarch 19, 1815, died Jan-
uary 20, 1845, daughter of Nathan Parsons,
of Durham, Connecticut. He married (sec-
ond) June 7, 1846, .Anna Scovill Peck, born
March 15, 1827, died March 7, 1884, daugh-
ter of Norris and Elizabeth (Langdon) Peck,
of Kensington Parish, Berlin. Her father was
born December 9, 1795, and was descended
from Deacon Paul Peck, born about 1622 in
county Essex, England, and came to Boston
in the ship "Defence,"' and removed in 1636
with Hooker's company to Hartford, where
he was an original proprietor ; his house and
farm was on the corner of Washington street
and Capitol avenue, the site of the new state
library and sttpreme court building ; he was
surveyor of highways, townsman, chimney
viewer, and deacon in the First Church. Her
mother was descended from the prominent
Langdon family, large landholders in what is
now the town of Berlin, owning land now oc-
cupied by the New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad Company, and by the extensive
brickyard in the vicinity ; they were also
patriots in the revolution. Children : Laura
Parsons, born March 17, 1837, died Decem-
ber 28, 1866; Julia Eliza, September i, 1838,
died April 2, 1852 ; Catherine Parsons, De-
cember 18, 1842, died May 17, 1843: Samuel
Parsons, August 24, 1844, died August 20,
1846. Children of second wife : Samuel
Howard, April 23, 1848: Clarence Peck,
March 18, 1850, died June 15, 1852; Anna
Peck (twin), December 2, 1853, died Decem-
ber 15, 1856; Amos Peck (twin), died Decem-
ber 30, 1853 : Edward Henry, September 22,
1856, died January 24, 1865 : Frank Langdon,
January 6, 1859, mentioned below : Elizabeth
Peck, Klarch 8, 1861 ; Victor Peck, Mav 2-].
1866, died May 28, 1867.
(IX) Hon. Frank Langdon, son of Samuel
Curtis ^\'iIcox, was born in Berlin, January
6, 1859. He attended the Berlin Academy
until he was twelve years of age, and then
entered St. Paul's School at Concord, New
Hampshire, graduating in 1876, after a five
years' preparatory course. He entered Trin-
ity College, Hartford, graduating in 1880 with
the degree of A.B., and then entered the shops
of The Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company at
Kensington, Berlin. He became the manager
of the shops in 1885, continuing in that capac-
ity until the consolidation of the Kensington
factory with the other factories of the com-
pany. He then became associated with the
Berlin Iron Company as its treasurer, which
position he held until the company was ab-
sorbed by the American Bridge Company,
May 12, 1900. He is interested and identified
with many business interests in Hartford
county. He is vice-president of the Peck,
Stow & Wilcox Company, director of the
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Hartford, of the Phoenix National Bank of
Hartford, New Britain Trust Bank of New
Britain, of the Berlin Savings Bank of Ber-
lin, and president of the Fidelity Trust Com-
pany of Hartford. In politics Mr. Wilcox is
a Republican. He was a member of the state
legislature in 1893, serving as clerk of the
judiciary committee. In 1903 he was a mem-
ber of the state senate, representing the sec-
ond district, and was chairman of the com-
mittee on senatorial districts, expositions and
rivers, roads and bridges. He was a member
of the Connecticut commission to the Louisi-
ana Purchase E.xposition. He was president
of Trinity College Alumni Association and
.Athletic Association. He is a member of St.
Elmo Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Meriden : of Delta Psi, college fraternity : of
Engineers' Club of New York: major, com-
manding First Company Governor's Foot
Guard, and a member of several social clubs.
He was also a member of the advisory com-
mittee of the Connecticut commission to the
Jamestown Exposition, and is president of the
Society of Middletovvn LTpper Houses, being
descended from si.x of the founders of LTpper
Houses. He is superintendent of the Congre-
gational Sunday school at Berlin.
He married, January 19, 1898, Harriet
Churchill, born ]March 20, 1870, in Berlin,
daughter of Deacon Charles Selah and Julia
Sophia (Higgins) Webster. Children: Mar-
garet Webster, born February 15, 1902: Sam-
uel Churchill, November 29, 1904.
The Heyden or Heydon fam-
H.AYDEN ily of England belonged to the
Order of Knights, deriving
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this siirnamt- from the town cif 1 leyduii in
Xorlolk, w litre tlit-v were rtrst seated. The
word means liij^h down, or plain-on-the-hill,
and tlic town itself is rich in ancient history.
The family itself appears as early as the Nor-
man ("oncjiicst. hut comes into ])rominence earlv
in tile thirteenth centnr\ in the person of 'iliom-
as de Heydon. resident at Heydon, and a jus-
tice itinerant in .Norfolk in 1221. From him all
the I'liinlisli families known are descende<l.
They ilo not seem to have heeii numerous at
any period of their history. The principal
liranch in the jiersons of the eldest son> re-
mained in Norfolk, inheritini; the estates of
lleydon. Itaconsthorji and el.sewhere, while a
branch in the line of the second son, by the
name of John de ilayden. settled in Devon-
shire about 1273 and another a few tjeiiera-
tions later at Watford, near London.
(I) Thomas de Heydon, the Kni^lish pro-
genitor, Imrn probably about 1185. died 1250.
(Ill \\ illiam lleydon, eldest son of Thomas
de Heydon. was born about 1220, died 1272.
lie bad the estate at .Norfolk.
(lilt John de lleydon, yonnfjer son of Wil-
liam lleydon, was county judge in Devonshire
in I27.v'
( I\' ) Robert Heydon or de Heydon, son of
John de Heydon. ajjpears to have been the
first to cbaiii^e the spellinj; of the first sylla-
ble to Hay. a form that afterward distin-
fjuishes this branch of the family. I le settled
at I'.onshwiiod, jiarish of Ilarpford. Devon-
shire, near which estate the family afterward
dwelt. He married Joan . He deeded
bis estate to his son Henry in the nineteentli
year of Henry I.
( \' ) Henry Haydon, .son of Robert Haydon
or de Heydon, married a relative, Julian,
dau,i;hter and heir of Haydon of Ebford.
(\I) William (2) Haydon, son of Henry
Haydon. inherited his father's estate at I'oui^h-
wood.
(NH) Robert (2) Haydon. son of William
(2) llay<lon. succeeded bis father.
(\11I) John (2) Haydon was son of Rob-
ert (2) Haydon.
( l.\) Henry (2) Haydon, son of John (2)
Haydon. had the P.otiijliwood and F/bford es-
tates in i_V)7- Children: John, inherited the
estate: William, mentioned below.
(\l William ( ,^ ) Haydon, son of Henry
(2) Haydon, inherited the estate of his elder
brother John, who died without issue. Lbil-
dren : Richard, rlied young:: John: Richard,
mentioned below: William.
(.\1 I Richard Haydon. son of William ( .^ )
Haydon. was livinu; on the estate in 147'^.
Chiblren : F^icbard. mentioned below: John:
Jane.
(XII) Richard (Ji llaydon, son of Richard
( I ) Haydon, had the otates in 1522; married
Joan, daughter <if .Maurice Trent, ui Otuiv
St. Mary. Children : Thomas, mention,
low; John, of Cadhay ; (ieorRc, of II
seys. The family an»>.: .Xr^ent three l..ii-,
;.;emells azure, on a chief ),'ulcs a barrulet
dancette or. Crest: the white liun vulninK
the black bull. These amis were granted lie-
fore 1315.
(.XIHi Tlii>mas (2) Haydcn. ^
ard (21 Haydon, married Joan.
Richard Weeks, of Honey Churcb. . rm.n.n
Thonia.s, mentioned below; Daughter, marrietl
Walter I.eifjh : Jane: Mar|,jaret.
(Xl\") Thomas (.?), son of Thomas (2)
Hayden, inheriteil the family estates of Hills
in kelmi-ton, 15oU|,diwiK)<l and Kb ford ; ;i .:
ried (. hristinna. d;iu|L;liier and heir of k'
riderslei}.|li in D(ir>etshire. Children: i
ert, mentioned below ; Thomas.
(X\) Robert (3). son of Tlumiav ,
Hayden. inherited the estate of his Rrand-
unde at Cadhay. a distinguished lawyer, who
held the charter for incorporatiiii; the .'
when lui!,dand broke away from the k
church, in 15.V>. known a^ .">!. .Mary in, ..
where many of the family are buried. His
wife Joan inherited the estate at Cadhay aiul
he rebuilt the house, which is still in - I
repair. He married Joan, daujjhter ii ^ •
.Amias I'anlet. of ( leorije Hinton, Somci>ei-
sliire. Children: (lideiMi. mentioned below;
.\mias: Drew: .Mars^jaret.
(X\I) Gideon, son of Robert (3) Hayden,
succeeded to the Cadhay and Kbford e>^fqtcs:
married .Mari;aret. daui;^liter of J..!
Creedy. The author of the fai
says: "They had seven sons and 1 ._..
ters. Several of the sons jjrew to manh I
and were living in 1^^*30. The eldest, (iide >n.
succeeded him. The names of the others do
not ajipear. I take it there must have been
a John, William and James, ami that they
were the John. William and James who cmi-
ijrated to lloston in 1^130-33." (lideon Hay-
den owned the ship "Dove" of Lyniston in
1629, and it was commanded by his son
Gideon. The son. John Hayden. commanded
the "Phoeni.x" of Dartmouth, also in 1628.
In any case the .\mericaii branch seems closely
Connected with the Devon family and the
lineage seems to Ik' correct.
(X\II) John (3). son of Gideon Hayden,
is said to have come to i?oston in f''>30. He
was admitted a freeman Nfay 14. 1634. and
was a proprietor of I'Kirchcster in i<>32. (Jn
June S. i'>.^9. his "fine for entertaining an nn-
liceiise<l servant, as he did it iRiiorantly, was
remitted to him." In I'xjo he was in llrain-
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tree. He married Susanna
His will
is dated October 31, 1678, and proved July
26, .1682, showing that he died between those
two dates. Children: John, born 1634, men-
tioned below : Joseph ; Samuel ; Jonathan, May
19. 1640; Hannah, April 7, 1642; Ebenezer,
September 12, 1645 ; Nehemiah, February 14,
1647-48.
(XVHI) John (4), son of John (3) Hay-
den, was born in Braintree, in May, 1634,
died there in 1718. He settled in his native
town and was a farmer. He married, April
6, 1660, Hannah Ames, daughter of William
and Hannah (Ames) Adams, of Braintree,
born May 12, 1641, died July 3, 1690. Chil-
dren : Hannah, born January 3, 1661 ; Sarah,
July 9. 1662; Josiah, June 19, 1669; also Jo-
seph, John, Hannah, Elizabeth, Lydia and Abi-
gail.
(XIX) Josiah, son of John (4) Hayden,
was born at Braintree, June 19, 1669, died
at Sudbury, December 9, 1730. He removed
to Sudbury with other Braintree families be-
fore 1700, and settled near the westerly boun-
dary of the town. In 1707 he signed a remon-
strance against the division of the town into
two parishes. The last of his descendants in
Sudbury was Dana Hayden, who died on the
homestead about 1850. Children : Elisha : Ed-
mund, mentioned below ; John, lived at Hop-
kinton.
(XX) Edmund, son of Josiah Hayden,
settled in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Chil-
dren: Jose])h, Sybilla, Sarah, Edmund, Com-
fort, Eunice, Thomas, Josiah, mentioned be-
low.
(XXI) Josiah (2), son of Edmund Hay-
den, was born about 1740. He married
Ruhamah Thayer. He was a taxpayer in Wil-
liamsburg in 1772, and served in the revolu-
tion from that town. He was corporal in
Captain John Kirkland's company from Au-
gust 16, 1777. An affidavit in the Hamp-
shire company, January 28, 1778, signed by
Lieutenant x\bner Pomeroy and Sergeant
Phinehas W'right, states that they were sent
to bring Hayden and others back to camp,
they having deserted, and did so, the men
returning without guard or compensation, and
received the punishment ordered and served
until the expiration of their engagement. This
was a common occurrence, many men leaving
when they considered their services no longer
necessary, in order to care for their farms.
In the census of 1790 appears the name of
Josiah Hayden as living in Williamsburg, with
a family of three males over sixteen, two
under sixteen, and three females, showing
that he had six children then. Among them
were: David, born 1778, settled in Attle-
borough ; Daniel, March 25, 1780, mentioned
below ; Cotton.
(XXII) Daniel, son of Josiah (2) Hayden,
was born March 25, 1780. He learned the
trade of machinist, and at the age of seventeen
learned the gunsmith's trade, going to the
armory at Springfield for that purpose. He
removel to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and
entered the employ of Samuel Slater, the only
cotton manufacturer at that time in the United
States. With him he constructed the first
machinery for the manufacture of cotton
made in this country. He became an expert
in this line, and remained in Pawtucket a
number of years, a part of the time associated
with David Wilkinson. In 1808 he returned
to Williamsburg and erected the first cotton
mill in western ^Massachusetts, about three
miles from the centre of the town. Around
this mill a village grew up which took from
him the name of Haydenville. In 1817 he
sold this factory to his nephews, Joel and Jo-
siah Hayden, and removed to W^aterbury,
Connecticut. He rented a room in the fac-
tory of Leavenworth, Hayden & Scovill, and
began the manufacture of lamps and other
articles of brass. He also aided his son, Jo-
siah S., in 1830, in constructing the first ma-
chinery ever used for the purpose of covering
buttons with cloth, and was interested in the
manufacture of buttons and small brass ar-
ticles until his death. He married, August
20, 1801, Abigail, born April i, 1775, daugh-
ter of Major Joseph Shepard, of Foxborough,
^Massachusetts, an officer in the revolution.
Children: Josiah Shepard, born July 31,
1802. mentioned below ; Abby Hewes. Novem-
ber 2~, 1804; Ardelia Crode, December 25,
1806: Sylvia Shepard, November 25, 1809;
Harriet Hodges, November 3, 18 12.
(XXIII) Josiah Shepard, son of Daniel
Hayden, was born in Fox'borough, July 31,
1802, died February 17, 1877. He was an
accomplished mechanic, and invented the first
machine ever used for covering buttons with
cloth. He also invented a machine for mak-
ing button eyes, and built the first engine
lathe in Waterbury. In 1830, in company
with his father, he commenced the manu-
facture of cloth buttons by machinery. He
married, January 10, 1819, Ruhamah Guil-
ford, who died November 27, 1841, daughter
of Simeon Guilford. Children : Hirdm
^^'ashington, born February 10, 1820, men-
tioned below: Edward Simeon, October i,
1825, died young. Four children died in in-
fancy.
(XXI\') Hiram W^ashington, son of Jo-
siah Shepard Hayden, was born Februarv 10,
1820, in Haydenville, and came to Waterbury
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with lii> ])arcnts wlicn yoiinj,'. lU- attcndcil
the old \\atiTl)ury Academy. He was in-
duced to try tlie work of cnf^ravin;,' metal but-
tons in the tirm of |. M. L. and \V. 11. Sco-
vill, an art at that time in its infancy. He
found the work too contininj^ and gave it uj).
hut was afterward in<hici-<l t<i resume it. lie
ma<le the tir-t chased huttons manufactured
by the Scovills, and |)robably the first in the
United States. Me removed to Wolcottville
in iJ^,^^. and was with W'adiiams & Company,
button manufacturers. In 1S41 lie returned to
ScovilK & Comjiany, making all the best dies
for buttons and medal> until 1S53. While at
W'olcottxille he became interested in the
method of manufacturing,' brass kettles there,
and soon tlevised a more effective way of
makint,' them. This sin-^le invention of the
spinning; jirocess affected vitally the history
of four of the leading manufacturiufj con-
cerns of Waterbury. In the old method there
was a tendency to make the metal thinner at
the an.i,de forineil by the bottom and sides of
the kettle, where the t^reatest streny:th was
needed. In his proce^s the metal here was
tliickot, and his invention. ])atenteil in 185 1,
he sold to the Waterbury Crass Com]);my.
This discovery revolutionized the nianufac-
ti;rc of brass and copper kettles, and is the
only method in use ntw. In 1853 he joined
witii l>rael Holmes. John C. liiMith and llenry
H. lla\den in the ortjanization of Holmes,
I'looth & Haydens. enjjayed in the manufac-
ture of brass and co])])it articles. He had
chari;e of the factory and since its formation
never was absent from a stockholder's annual
meetiui;. Mr. Haydcn took out a remark-
able number of jiatents in this country and
Europe, a lart^e majority of which were as-
sicined to Holmes. I'.ooth & Haydens. .\mong
his many inventions is a breech-loading rifle,
a majjazine rifle and hreech-loadini; cannon.
.\ machine for makinij solid metal tubini?.
which he invented, was sold to a I'ittsbnrij
company. His love for art led him into the
development of the daijuerreotype. While en-
^aijed in this, the idea came to him of taking
pictures on i)aper. .\ scicntilic article on this
subject, written by him in 1S51, but never
published, entitles him to the honor of beintj
an indepeniient discoverer of the iiliotogra-
phic process. The Waterbury .hiii'iiimi of
l*"ebruary 14, 1851, contained the following
notice of his discovery: ".Mr. Hiram Hay-
den, injjeniocs artist of this villatje. has shown
us three lan<lscape views taken by the usual
dasjuerrean ajjparatus upon a white paper sur-
face, all at one operation. This is the first
successful attem])t to produce a positive i)ic-
tnre by this extraordinary medium. The i)ic-
ture- exhibit ilu iii.. . 1 '
similar to a line eny ravin;;,
most delicate niinuti:e with ti ■
ordinary da;nicrre<ityiK'. h'or ni.n
this improvement will be <>f i;r»-a(
as it will enable the o| '
and |>ortraii< <jf any >i.
ami at a cheaj) rate. \'.
Ilayden ha- made ap| 1
ent uiMtn a ukkIc of pi
vious to its use." His >Ui,;it, m \
were almost continuous, ami he w
of the Waterbury I'lmt.
inj; his leisure b^airs
various branches of tli
copper, miKlclinn in wax. and skt ■
charcoal and pencil. .Mways a ihl
and sinilent, lie ac<piired a 1. f in-
formation on all snbjects. i July
31, 1S44, Pauline, eldi- • ' 'i
.\li;,;eon. a native of 1
ward ."simeon. menti'inc
married I'rederick J. I'.rown, i ioientnie H.u-
riet. .Mrs. Haydcn died .\j)ril 20. 1873. Mr.
Hayden died July 18. 11^4. .Xs a man of
orii^inal ideas anil havin(.r embixlied them in
practical ways, he had a lar^e share in the ad-
vancement of the prosperity of Waterbury.
(XXN) Edward .Simeon, son of Hiram
Washington Hayden, was Ixirn Octi>l)cr 20,
1851. Ho was educated at private schools in
Waterbury anil at the Rivervicw Military
Academy .-it Potighkeepsie. .\"ev\ York. He
entered the Waterburv National I'.ank as
lMM)kkeeper in l-"ebruary. if<(»). In February.
iS-<>, he was elected secretary and treasurer
of Holmes. I'.ooth & Haydens. Having made
a study of the metallurgy of copper, he Ih--
came connected with the liridgeiwrt Copper
Company in Se|>tember, i8X(i. He was one of
the ])romoters of the Maltimore Electric Re-
fining Com|)any, organized in March, 1891.
for the purjjose of using his jirocess "^f doctr.i-
lyzing metals. This invention h.i-
ented in the I'nited .^tate- an.l f. •
tries. The extensive plant in -.
Maryland, was built from his plans and under
his sui)ervision. He was apjxiinted first lieu-
tenant and paymaster of the Connecticut Na-
tional Ciuard, Septemlier 30. 1878: major and
brigade commissary. January 2.v '•'^**,i: major
and brigade i|uarlermaster. .\pril 23, 1884.
He resigned his military offices in .\pril, 1800.
He died February 14, 1891;. He was a mem-
ber of the Sewanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club,
the Racquet Club of New ^'o^k City, the Ten-
nis Club of .New ^'ork City, the Waterbury
Club, the Country Club of Farmington. the
Sons of the .American Revolution and Con-
necticut SiK-ietv of Colonial Wars. He mar-
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ried. October 8 1877, Elizabeth Gilder Kel-
logg, of New York City, daughter of Norman
Gilbert and Rebecca f. (Hinckley) Kellogg
(see Kellogg X). Children: i. Pauline Mig-
eon, born May 20, 1879. 2. Rose Hinckley,
June 16, 1881 : married, June 10, 1906, Wil-
liam Shirley Fulton, son of William E. Ful-
ton ( see Fulton ) ; children : William Hayden
Fulton, born March 12, 1907, and Elizabeth,
born January 14, 1910. 3. Margery Kellogg,
March 20, 1884.
(The Kellogg Line).
Tlie surname Kellogg is found in England
early in the sixteenth century, and there are
differences of opinion as to its origin. Some
think the name comes from two Gaelic words
meaning lake and cemetery, making it a place
name. The earliest record of the family is in
Debden, county Essex, England, when in Jan-
uary, 1525, Nicholas Kellogg was taxed. Wil-
liam Kellogg was also on the tax list. There
were many ways of spelling the name, among
them Kelhogge, Kellogue, Cologe. Calaug,
Cellidge, Kellock, Killhog, Collidge, Cellog,
and many others. There were many families
of the name in county Essex, Great Leigh and
Braintree being the seat of different branches
probably of the same family. Nicholas Kel-
logg was born about 1488 and married Flor-
ence, daughter of William Hall. He was bur-
ied in Debden, May 17, 1558, and she was
buried there November 8, 1671. Children:
William, buried in Saffron Walden, February
2, 1578; Thomas, lived in Debden, probably
ancestor of the American immigrant men-
tioned below.
(I) Phillippe Kellogg, probably son of
Thomas Kellogg mentioned above, lived in
1583 in Booking, county Essex, England, a
parish adjoining Braintree. On September
15 of that year his son Thomas was loaptized
there. Two years later he was found in
Great Leigh where his daughter Annis was
buried in 161 1. He may have had two wives.
Children: Thomas, baptized September 15,
1583: Annis, buried May 25. 161 1: Robert,
baptized in Great Leigh, November 14, 1585,
removed to Braintree and was buried there
January 18, 1666: Mary ,_ baptized February
16, 1588; Prudence, baptized March 20, 1592;
Martin, baptized November 23, 1595, men-
tioned below : Nathaniel, died in New Eng-
land without issue ; John, Jane, Rachel.
(H) Martin, son of Phillippe Kellogg, was
baptized in Great Leigh, November 23, 1595,
died at Braintree, in 1671. He was a weaver
or cloth worker and resided in Great Leigh
and Braintree. His will was dated May 20,
1671. He married, in St. Michaels, Bishops
Stortford, county Hertford, October 22, i()2i.
Prudence Bird, who died before him. Chil-
dren: John; Nathaniel, baptized March 12,
1624: Joseph, baptized April i, 1626, men-
tioned below; Sarah, baptized February i,
1628: Daniel, baptized February 6, 1630, re-
moved to New England ; Samuel, removed to
New England ; ]\Iartin.
(HI) Lieutenant Joseph, son of Martin
Kellogg, was baptized at Great Leigh, county
Essex, England, April i, 1626, died in 1707.
He was the immigrant ancestor. He settled
in Farmington, Connecticut, where he was
living in 1651. He and his wife joined the
church, October 9, 1653. He sold his home
lot in 1655 and removed about 1657 to Boston.
On October 19, 1659, he bought of Peter Oli-
ver his dwelling house on the street to Rox-
bury. He sold this property June 13, 1661, to
John Witherden. The lot of land is now oc-
cupied by the Advertiser Building on Wash-
ington street. He paid seven hundred dollars
for it at that time. He removed to Hadley,
and the town made an agreement with him
in 1 661 to keep the ferry between Hadley
and Northampton. He built his house on a
small home lot which had been reserved by
the town for a ferry lot. He was given leave
also to entertain travelers. In 1677 the town
voted to pay him forty pounds for the loss of
his team which had been impressed for the
country's service, and for ferriage for sol-
diers. He and his son John and grandson
John kept this ferry until 1758, almost a cen-
tury. Stephen Codman, who married his
daughter, kept it still later. The last name
of the ferry was Goodman's Ferry.
Joseph Kellogg was selectman of Hadley
many years. In 1686 he was on a committee
to lay out lands, and for the purchase of
Swampfield from the Indians. He and his
sons had grants of land in Hadley. He N-dls
sergeant of the military company in 1663. and
May 9, 1678, was appointed ensign of the
foot company. October 7 of the same year he
was made lieutenant, serving until 1692. He
was in command as sergeant of the Hadley
troops in the famous Turner's Falls fight.
May 18, 1675. His will is dated June 7, 1707,
and proved February 4, 1708, giving the
year of his death. He married (first) prob-
ably in England, Joanna , who died in
Hadley, September 14, 1666; (second) Abi-
gail Terry, born in Windsor, Connecticut,
September 21, 1646, daughter of Stephen
Terry, the immigrant. Her will was dated
May 29, 1717, and proved October 31, 1726.
His wife Abigail was before the court in
1673 for wearing silk, contrary to tl'^law, but
was accpiitted. It was shown at the^ial that
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r/,3
Ikt hiisban Ts estate was bcluw the umj hun-
dred ixjunds necessary to allow her to wear
"j^old or silver lace, t^old or silver buttons,"
etc. Children of first wife: Klizai)eth, born
in l-'arniiniiton. March 5, i(>5i. tlied youn^j ;
jo>e|>li, Auj,'ust 11. i'>5,^: Nathaniel, ha])tized
( Jctohi-r 29, i'>54. <lied \onni;: John, l):i|)tized
December Jf). i<>5(i: .Martin, liorn in l!o>ton,
November jj. i<)58: Kdward, October i,
if)f)0: Samuel. Sei)tember 2S, i(t<t2, men-
tioned below: Joanna, Diceinlier 8, 1^)4;
.Sarah, August 27, Mrf)*). t'iiililren of second
wife: .Stephen. Aiiril >>. if>(>S: .Nathaniel. ( )c-
toiier S, i()l*i: .\bii;aii, October 9, 1671 : Kliz-
ahetii, ( )ctoher 9, i'>7,?: I'rudence, ( )ctolH.'r 14,
1(175: IChenezer, .N\>vemi)er 22. 1677; Jona-
tiian, December 25, i''79; Daniel, ^larch 22,
i(k*<2: Jose])h, May i,v i'^4: Daniel, June
10, i()8r>; Mphraim, January 2, ifiS/, died
younj,'. ■»
il\) Samuel, son of Lieutenant Joseph
Kellogfj, was born in Hadley, September 28,
i(i()2. Me was broui^ht up in the family of
Colonel Stanley, who rescued him, when a
child, from an overturned kettle of boiling
so;i)). He bi>ii!:,'ht lanfl in the south meadows
at Hartford in ifiQi and sold it in 1705;
bought land at West Hartford and lived
there. He was deacon of the church.
He married, at Hartford, September 22,
1687, Sarah Merrill, born September 19,
iC/)4. died 1719, daughter of Deacon Jolui and
.Sarah (Watson) ^^e^rill. He andr- his wife
were admitted to the .^econ<l Churcii at Hart-
ford. .March 17, i<^i95. Her will was proved
November 3, 1719. Children: Samuel, born
.August 27. iCiSS: Margaret, January, 1(^190:
.-\braham. ba])tized October 23, 1692: John,
born December 16. i(*j~,-i/f. Isaac, January
17, \f*)7. mentioned below: Jacob. .\|iril 17,
i''>9t): P.cnjamin, January, 1701 : Joseph .\]>ril
13. 1704; Daniel, .April, 1707.
( \' ) Cajitain Isaac, son of Samuel Kellogg,
was i)orn at Hartford, January 17. if*)', dieil
Jidy 3, 1787. He resided at New Hartford
and was the first representative to^iliiii^^'on-
necticut assembly, serving twenty-three terms.
He was justice of the i^eace. lieutenant of the
I'ourlh Company of the train band and cap-
tain afterward. He was deacon of the First
C"hurch of New Hartford. He wa< distin-
gnisiied for his piety, good judgment, firmness
and ability. His descendants are very numer-
ous. His son Noah and grandson Michael
had the homestead. He married, at Hartford,
December 2(1. 1717, Mary, born May 31. i(i<)7,
diei] Jamiary 3. 1780. daughter of Joseph and
Mary (Judd) Webster. Cliiblren: Samuel,
born November 15, 1718: .\braham. January
17. 1720, mentioned below; Mary, March 2,
1723: Theo losia. June 7 <-•: ■- '-■■ Oc-
tober 8. 1727: Noah, D ,. Ji>.
seph, Octoljer 14. 1731 ■ r |8,
1732: Sarah, February ii., 1733, .wlaigarct,
June 12. 1737; .Ann, .Aupust 21. 1730: Ksthcr,
.\ngusi 21, 1730; liuldah, .M . ' 742.
(\ 1) .\braham. son of I Kel-
logg, w.is iKjrn at Hartford, j ,. 1720,
died January 13, 1803. We are told he was
erect and haughty in ap|H'arance, but cheerful,
pious and agreeable. I le married, at New
Hartford, June 17, 1747, .Sarah .Marsh, bap-
tizeil June 28, 1724. (laughter of Jonathan
•Marsh, of Hartford. She <lied in 1796. Cliil-
dren: F>ther. Ijorn .March 24, 1748; .Abra-
ham. January 2/, 1750; Solomon, Decemljcr
10, 1731 : Moses (twin). February 23, 1754;
Flias (twin) : Phineas, June 7. I75'>: Martin.
July 16, 1758: 1-rederick Webster, January
31, 17O1 ; Sarah, June 3, 1763: Truman, Jan-
uary 6. I7<'i''): Elizabeth, June 17, 1768.
(\1I) Moses, son of .Abraham Kellogg,
was iKirn at New Hartford, February 23,
1754, died there in 1806. He was a soldier
in the revolution on the Lexington alarm. He
married (first) Khoda. daughter of De.icon
.Sil^ Kellogg. He married (second) Janu-
ar\yi9, 1786. Mabel, born .March 6. 1763.
dadtrhter of Elijah and Rachel (Wells) Mer-
rill. Children of first wife: Son. died
young : daughter, died young : James, baptized
.August II. 1782. Children of second wife:
Norman. Ixirn October 31, 1794. mciitione<l
below: Truman. December. i8<y): Henry, died
October 22, 1823. at Mobile. .Alabama : I'olly,
married iienham: I^uisa ; S«iphia,
married Ixivejoy.
(\"III) Colonel Norman, son of Moses
Kellogg, was born ( )ctolK"r 31. 170; ■'••■■' ' '"-
cember 17, 1872. He married.
1821, Fannie, born Decemlier 29, i"
ter of Isaac Steele, of New Hart lord, Ijorn
October 14, 1732. died DccenilnT 6. 1863,
and I^vinia (Coodwin) Steele. Jiorn Jan-
uar\- 8, I7'>3. descendant of John Steele, of
Hartford, assistant governor in i'i36: des-
cendant al.so of Governor William Bradford.
Governor Webster and Richard Treat. Tlicy
resided at New Hartforcj. later at Nepaug,
Connecticut. He was a farmer, colonel of mili-
tia, twice representative to the general assem-
bly, and for fifty years a Free Mason. Chil-
dren, born at New Hartford: Leonard Fitch,
,born January 23. 1822; Robert Dwight, Feb-
ruary 24. 1823: Norman Gilbert, January 20.
1825. mentioned below : James Homer. June 9.
182'^! : Fanny. November 23. 1828: Henry Clay,
June 20. 1831 : Lucius, Octoljcr 7, 1834; Fanny
Eliza, .August 7, 1837.
( IN t Norman Ciill)crt, son of Col. Norman
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Kellogg, was born at New Hartford, January
20, 1825, died in New York City, November 13,
1900. He was for some years a member of the
wholesale dry- goods firm of Kniseley, Stout
& Kellogg of New York, a member of Dr.
Howard Crosby's church. He retired some
j-ears before his death. He married (first) Jan-
uary 21, 1852, Rebecca Thorpe, born January
23, 1833, daughter of Charles Albert Hinckley,
born at Hallowell, Maine, January 18, 1792,
and Rebecca (Farnham) Hinckley, widow of
Rev. Thomas B. Thorpe. Charles Albert
Hinckley was a descendant of Governor Thom-
as Hinckley, Governor Prince of Plymouth,
Major John Freeman and Elder William
Brewster. He married (second) October 3,
1765, Elizabeth Steele, daughter of Samuel and
Mary Ann (Steele) Castle. She died October
30. 1867. Children of first wife: Elizabeth
Gilder, mentioned below ; Rebecca, died young ;
Emily, died young. Child of second wife : Sam-
uel Castle, October 27, 1867, married Mary
Davenport Easton.
(X) Elizabeth Gilder, daughter of Norman
Gilbert Kellogg, was born March i, 1855 : mar-
ried, in New York, October 8, 1877, Edward
Simeon Hayden (see Hayden XXV).
The surname Whiting (Whi-
WHITING ton) is derived from a place
name and has been in use in
England since the earliest adoption of sur-
names there. Roger Witen is mentioned in
the Domesday Book (1085). Alan de Witting
is mentioned on the rolls of Yorkshire in 11 19
and 1 1 50; Hugo Witeing was of Dorsetshire
in 1202; Everard de Witting, of Yorkshire in
1 195; Giflfardo Witeng, of Somersetshire, in
1214: ^\'illus de Witon, of Yorkshire, 1216:
Thomas de Whitene, of Nottinghamshire, in
1276: Wills \Miithingh, of Oxfordshire, in
1 300.
TJie Whitings have several coats-of-arms,
but that in use by the family of this sketch at
the time of the emigration and afterward is
described : Azure a leopard's face or between
two tlaunches ermine in chief three plates.
Crest : A demi-eagle displayed with two heads
proper.
(I) ?ilajor William Whiting, the immigrant
ancestor, held an enviable position among the
earlv settlers of Hartford, Connecticut. At
some time between 1631 and 1633 he became
one of the purchasers of the Piscataqua grants
of the Bristol men. He was associated with
Lords Say and Brooke and George Wyllys.
They continued Thomas Wiggin as their agent.
He retained his interests in Maine until his
death. He was "one of the most respectable
of the settlers (of Hartford) in 1636, one of
the civil and religious Fathers of Connecticut,
a man of wealth and education, styled in the
records, "William Whiting, gentleman,' " In
1642 he was chosen one of the magistrates ; in
1641 treasurer of the colony of Connecticut,
an office he held the rest of his life. "In 1646
a plot was laid l^y Sequasson, Sachem of the
Naticks, to kill Governor Haynes and Hopkins
and Mr. Whiting on account of the just and
faithful protection which these gentlemen had
aft'orded Uncas. The plot was disclosed by a
friendly Indian and the danger averted." He
bore the title of Major as early as 1647. He
was cine of a committee who for the first time
sat with the court of magistrates in 1637; was
admitted freeman in February, 1640 ; was mag-
istrate 1642-47, treasurer, 1641-47. In 1638
he was allowed to trade w'ith the Indians and
was appointed with ]\Iajor Mason and others
to erect fortifications in 1642, and in the same
year was appointed with Mason to collect
tribute of the Indians on Long Island and on
the Main. He was a merchant of wealth and
had dealings with Virginia and Piscataqua. He
had a trading house on the Delaware river and
another at Westfield, Massachusetts. His will,
dated ]\Iarch 20, 1643, states that he was about
to make a voyage at sea. It bears a codicil
dated July 24, 1647. (See Trumbull's Colo-
nial Records, or Hartford Probate Records).
Whiting was powerful and useful in the colony
on account of his broad views and wealth,
which enabled him to carry out for the benefit
of the community his large and various plans.
Always an efficient promoter of the trade and
commerce of Hartford, he had trading houses
also in various parts of the country and he
owned many large land patents. Governor Ed-
ward Hopkins and he were the two leading
merchants of the colony of which Hartford
was the centre. After the Pequot war was
over they began to export corn "beyond the
seas."
His widow, Susanna, married, in 1650, Sam-
uel Fitch, of Hartford, and (third) Alexander
Bryan, of Milford, Connecticut. She died July
8, 1673 at Middletown. His inventory showed
an estate of two thousand eight hundred and
fiftv-four pounds. Children: i. William, was a
merchant, died in London, England, in 1699;
in 1686 he was appointed by the general as-
sembly as their agent to present their petition
;;; re charter to the king. 2. John, born 1635;
graduate of Harvard College in 1653 : came to
Hartford in 1660 as colleague of Rev. Samuel
Stone, pastor of the first church : withdrew
with his followers, February 12, 1672, and
formed the second church : married (first) in
1634. Sybil Collins: (second) Phebe. daughter
of Thomas Gregson ; his widow married Rev.
t < l.\ .\ l.< 1 ll 1 1
66s
Jolin Riisstll, of Hatlky; John \\ liiting <lic<l
Se|jtt'ml)t'r 8. 1679. 3. Samuel. 4. Sarah, mar-
ried (first) Jacul) Mvf^att. of Hartford; (sec-
ond) Jolin King, of Xortliampton. 5. Mary,
married, August 3. lf/>4. Rev. Nathaniel Col-
lins : she dietl Octoijcr 25, I70»^. r>. Joseph, men-
tioned below.
( II ) Joseph, .son of Major William and Su-
sanna W hitin),', was horn Octol)er 2, i'>40. at
Hartford and died there ( )ctol)cM- 8. 1717. He
was a merchant, tirst of Westfieid, Massachu-
setts, later of Hartford, whither he returne<l
aliout the time of Kinj; I'htlip's war. He was
treasurer of iji colony of Lonm-cticnt from if>78
until his death, a jieriod of tliirty-nino years.
His son John succeeded him in this office and
held it for thirty-two year.s. He was a wealthy
and distinijuishcd citizen. He married (tirst)
( )ctol)er 5, \(>(x). Mary, dauj^hter of Hon. John
I'vnchon and (.granddaughter of Hon. Williain
I'ynchon. the founder of Sprin!.;ticM, .Massa-
chusetts. Her mother was .Ann ( W'yllys) Pyn-
chon, daughter of Hon. George VVyllys (not
John). He married (second) in iC>~(>. .\nna,
datigliter of Mathew .\llyn. Her mother was
a daughter of Hon. William Smith, of Spring-
tichl, and granddaughter of William I'ynchon.
She was lK)rn .August 18, 1652, and died March
3, 1735. at .\'ew Haven. Joseph Whiting died
C)ctf>i)er 19. 1717. ChiMren of first wife:
Mary, horn .August 19, 1672. married (first)
Josef)h .'shcldon and (second) John .Ashley;
Josej)h. ( )ctol)er 3, i'>74. died \iMmg. Children
of .second wife: Anna, born August 2a, 1677,
died .April 18, 1684; John. Xoveniher 13, i'V9'
died young; Susanna, June 18. 1682. married
(first) .Samuel Thornton, (sccontl) Thomas
Warren: William. March 14. 1(185. died .Sep-
tember 6, 1702: .Anna, .August 18, 1687; Mar-
garet. January 5. lUyn. married Rev. Jonathan
Mftrsh; John. December 15. i'>93. mentioned
below.
(in) Colonel John Whiting, son of Joseph
and .Anna ( .\llyn ) Whiting, was born in Hart-
ford. December 15. if*)^. He succeeded his
father in 1717 as treasurer of the colony, hi->ld-
ing the office for thirty-two years. He was a
merchant in Hartford and a man of wealth and
standing. He commanded a regiment in the
French and Indian wars. He died February 12,
17'Vi. He married Jerusha. daughter of Rich-
ard Lord, of Hartford, grandson of Thomas
Lord, one of the first settlers of the town of
Hartford. She was born February 23, 1^99.
and died October 21. 1776. in Windsor, Con-
necticut. Children, born at Hartford: Joseph,
January, 1713, died February. 1713: Abigail.
July 24, 1718. died December 21. 1722: Je-
rusha. Sejitember i(>, 1720. married Daniel
Skinner, she died July Ti. 1803: Joseiib. Feb-
ruary 14, 1722, died N'ovcmb'- •-"■ *
February 16, 1724, niarried
jamin Colton, died May 31, 1;
17, 1727; Mary. August 25. 1729, mauicd julni
Skinner; Susan, February 10, 1732: Sarah,
April ^1. 1734 ; William, < >ctotKT 12, I73'>, died
< )c toiler 19, 1773; .Allyn, June i^. 1740, men-
tioned below; Elizalicth, June 25. 1743, died
.August 14, 1750.
(I\') Allyn, son of Colonel John and Je-
rusha (Lord) Whiting, was lx>m June 23,
1740; died I'ebruary o. 181K. .Allvn Whfting
was a - ' '- - '-■- ■■ ' ■ ' • Skin-
ner's I ll of
light ll , , . and
in Captam « Jzias liisseli s com|<any, Colonel
Roger Enos" regiment in New S'orW. in 177S.
He resided at West Hartford. II
I'lizabcth , and he and his wif<
church at ILnrtford. Children: .Al
Septeinberfi 1759. died .March 2^^. 1
.March, 1761, died October 3, 177"
August, 1763, mentioned below; Abigail, Au-
gust, 1766, died .August 29, 1773; Elijah, June,
1769; Cibson, .August, 1772, died March 14,
1826; Anna. March, 1774: Abigail, September.
177^1, died November 2, 177'".
( \' ) Joseph (2), son of .Allyn and Eliza-
beth Whiting, was liorn in West Hartford, in
.August, I7'^'3: died 1842. He marrie<l. in
1784, Mary Cioodwin, born I7'>'^>. dieii 1833.
He was a farmer and had the Ut\< • ^' -
in the militia. Children, iH.rn in \
ford : Joseph, 1784, died 1813: M;ii
Pajihro .Steele; Allen. July 4. 1788, mentioned
below: Delia, married Samuel Phelps; Sally
(/"iiKidrich, married Harry Phelps: Fniily, mar-
ried Thomas Hurlbnrt; I'lavia, marrie<I Rtis-
sell .Anderson : Nathan ; Eliza, married .Amos
Ward : Henry K., married Mary Filleo.
(\T) .Allen, son of Joseph (2) and Mary
(Goodwin) Whiting, was Ixirn in West Hart-
ford. July 4, 1788, and dicil there November 3.
1871. He was a farmer. He married .Amanda
.Alford, born June f\ iJ</\ died .April 3, 1849
(see .Alford IX). Children, l»orn at West
Hartford: Emerson .Alford, .August 23, 1818;
Jo.scph P.. February 24, 1820; .'^auuiel P.. Sep-
iembcr 10. 1821 : Elvira, Deceinl>er 3, 1822;
.\lfred. March 21. 1824, mentioned below:
Richard Henry. January 17, i82^>: John. July
2_\. 1S27: Orson. January 21. 1820: Thomas,
born November 22. 1830: .Amelia Jane. May
3, 1833: William. January 14. 1835; Ellen,
lune \C\ 1837.
(\TI) .Alfred, son of .\llen and .Amanda
(Alford) Whiting was Ixirn in West Hart-
ford. March 21, 1824. and died May 3, 1905.
He was educated in the public scho<ils of his
native town. He engaged in business as a
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florist and nurseryman and was in active busi-
ness about sixty years. He purchased a large
tract of land in West Hartford and opened
Whiting lane through his property from Farm-
ington avenue to Park street. He planted the
trees now standing on each side of this high-
way and from time to time sold lots until at
the time of his death he owned only the home-
stead and a few acres. He had a green-house
of some hundred thousand feet of glass, the
largest in the vicinity of Hartford. He was
a shrewd and successful business man, up-
right and honorable in all his dealings and held
in high esteem by all his townsmen. In politics
he was a Republican, but never sought or held
public office. He married, April 8, 1852. at
West Hartford, Frances Elizabeth Gilbert,
born at West Hartford, February 21, 1831 (see
Gilbert VII). Their only child was Helen
Frances, who resif'es on Whiting lane, West
Hartford, on the homestead.
( I he Gilbert Line).
The family of Devonshire, England, to
which Sir Humphrey Gilbert belonged was
doubtless the same as that to which the early
settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, of the Gil-
bert name belonged. Jonathan settled early in
Hartford, William and Thomas in Windsor,
and Obadiah and Josiah, all presumably broth-
ers, were in Connecticut by 1640.
(I) William Gilbert settled at Windsor. It
is believed that Captain John, mentioned below,
was his son.
( II ) Captain John Gilbert, believed to be the
son of William, settled in Windsor, Connecti-
cut, and was admitted a freeman May 21, 1657.
The general court sold to him for ten pounds
March 11, 1662-63, land lying between that of
Captain Richard Lord and of John Culich "at
ye landing place on the Rivulet both parcels
being or lying in ye south meadow at Hart-
ford." The court allowed him eleven pounds
in consideration of a horse "that dyed in the
country's service." He married. May 6, 1647,
Amv, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy Lord,
of Hartford. Children : John, born January 16,
1648, died young; John, February 19, 1652-53;
Elizabeth, February 12, 1655-56; Thomas, Sep-
tember 14, 1658, married, September 27. 1681,
Deborah Beaumont ; Amy. August 3, 1663 ; Jo-
seph, .\pril 3. t666, mentioned below: James;
Dorothy, married Palmer.
(III) Joseph, son of Captain John and Amy
(Lord) Gilbert, was born at Windsor, April
3. 1666. He married (first) May 17, 1692,
Mary Grosvenor ; (second) May 8, 1695, Eliz-
abeth Smith, born November, 1672. Among
the children of Joseph Gilbert was a son, Ben-
jamin, mentioned below.
(I\') Benjamin, son of Joseph Gilbert, was
born May 11, 1704, and married. May 14,
1730, Elizabeth Marshfield who died in 1772.
They had a son, Benjamin, mentioned below.
(\') Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (i)
and Elizabeth (Marshfield) Gilbert, was born
September 25, 1737, in West Hartford, and
died May 21, 1807. He was one of the found-
ers of the Friends Church in Hartford. In
1789 he was chosen deacon of the First Church
of Hartford (Congregational), but in Decem-
ber, 1794, he resigned the office, having joined
the Quakers. A paper laid before the church
at this time asking to be released from all
bonds and covenants was signed by him, his
son Charles. Ruth Gilbert and Charles Web-
ster. The church voted at the next meeting
to labor with them and not to accept their
resignations. But the laboring proved futile,
for the church voted, April i, 1802, that these
persons having embraced the Quaker creed and
kept away from all church services during so
long a period be released from all church
vows and left to go their own way. The
Quaker church in West Hartford was estab-
lished about this time, and the Gilberts gave
the land for the church, burying ground and
school house. Both church and school house
have long disappeared, but the burying ground
remains on Quaker lane. West Hartford, and
many of the Gilberts were buried there. He
married, August 2i. 1762, Anna Butler, born .
November 16. 1745, died December. 1782. Chil-
dren : Charles, born January 3, 1763, mentioned
below ; Anne Hurlburt ; Elisha ; Nathan ; Eli-
jah.
(AT) Charles, son of Benjamin (2) and
Anna (Butler) Gilbert, was born January 3,
1763; died October 7, 1812, at West Hartford.
He owned large tracts of land in West Hart-
ford and was a prosperous farmer. He was
also a Quaker. He married, in 1787, Ruth
Cadwell, born October 3, 1763, died March
29, 1823. Children: i. Charles, born 1788,
mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, born Novem-
ber 23, 1791 ; built the house on the homestead
just beyond \"anderbilt Hill ; married Rhoda
Kellogg Cadwell, born May 27, 1796, died
August 19. 1862; he died December 11, 1868;
was also a Quaker in religion. 3. ]\Iary.
(ATI) Charles (2), son of Charles (i) and
Ruth ( Cadwell ) Gilbert, was born in West
Hartford in 1788, and died there in 1851. He
married Eliza Ann Cadwell. He inherited and
acquired much real estate in his native place.
He was a prosperous stock farmer and was
also engaged in the meat provision business in
Hartford. Children : Frances Elizabeth, born
February 21. 1831, married. April 8. 1852, Al-
fred Whiting, of West Hartford (see Whiting
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\lh; kiitii Amelia, Mary Ami, Charles,
Alice Kiiza.
( riic Alfonl Line).
The surname Alford is identical with Al-
vord, and is ui English oriKin. There are
manv variations in spellinj.;. some ni theni 1k-
inp Aiire<l. Alvard. Alvart. Alverd, Allord. Al-
vcd. Alluord, Alhiard. Ullord. ( ijverd. ( >lv..rd,
etc. The principal scat of the family in Eng-
land was in county Somerset, where it was es-
tablished very early. The name was a place
name, derived from Aideford. a ford across a
river. Kohertus Domimis cle Aldford was
pt>vernor of a military statioTi, Aldiord C'astle.
conunandinji an old fort! across the Dee above
Chester. The connection of the Somer.set
family with .Mdford Castle in Cheshire is
early, but distinct. The Somerset family be-
came land owners about i^lo. The coat-of-
arms of the .\lford family is described as a
-hield surmounted with the crest ; on a wreath
of the ci>ulers, a boar's head couped or, in the
mouth a broken spear arj^eiit.
( I ) John .Mvord or .Mford was born about
1475-S5 in iMitjland. and lived in the i)arish of
\\ hitotaunton. county Somerset.
( 11 ) Rev. .Mexandcr .Mford was born about
130020. He married Agnes . and lived
at W'hitestaunlon, in 1550. His will was
dated December 22, 1576, and his widow's will
was dated in 157". She was iiuried at West
Monckton. county .Somerset, in 157!^. Chil-
■ Iren: .Mary. Alice, FClinor. Solomon. William,
John, llartholomew, I'ridget.
( 1\') Thomas, grandson of Kev. .Alexander
.Mford, married, .May 11, 1618, Joan Hawkins.
Children: i. I'enedict. mentioned below. 2. .M-
exander, baptized at r.ri(lge|)ort. county Dor-
set. England, ( )ctobcr 15, 1627: died at North-
ampton. .Massachusetts, October 3, 1^187; mar-
ried at Windsor, Connecticut. I )ctober 29.
1^)46, .Mary \'ore. resided at Windsor and.
Northampton. 3. Joaima, bajitized at White-
staunton, county Somerset. December 8, i'')22;
died at Windsor. Connecticut, May 22. l'>84:
married there May 6, iCq^. .Ambrose Fowler,
and removed to Westfield, Massachusetts.
( \' ) I'.enedict .Mford. the inunigraiit ances-
tor of the .\lford family, son of Thomas and
Joan (Hawkins) .Mford, was born probably
at Whitestaunton. I-jigland, about I'>i5-i8. and
died at Windsor. Connecticut. .April 23, i')83.
All his descendants spell the name .Alford,
while those of his brother .Alexander use Al-
vord. He came with his sister Joanna to
New England, settled in Windsor. Comiecti-
cut. and was a sergeant in the Pefpiot war in
May. I<^t37. In 1^)40 he was granted a home
lot. He [irobably made a visit to England in
1640. and was a witness to a deed in county
.Somerset. He married ■ " • '
ber 2(1. |f>40. Jane .\.
family of liroadway pai
on the jury in April K143, and was cuti»tablc
in lU/i U\< will wa' dnfe<l in r'>8v><4, antl
his e.>-i. .... ,^^.p||_
ty-nin> He
was a :... •■• •'
Octoljcr 17, it»4i, his w:
uary 13. 1^147, He wa-
i'>78, to the fun<! for the jMJi.r 111 ..i!.
Children : Jonathan, Ixirn June 1, i' ,
lienjamin, July 11, 1647, died .AuguM u. iy<-i.
Josiah, July 6. i(>49, mentioned below; Eliza-
beth, .SeptemlK-r 21, 1O51 ; Jcremiai), Decem-
ber 24, K»53,
(\'t) Josiah, son of lienedict and Jane
( .Newton) .Alford. was Imrn at Windsor, C'on-
necticut, July (1, \(>4>j. and died .May 10, 1722.
He married. May 22, iCxj^, Hannah. ' -■ ^- v!
8, if/>8, died .August 10, 1733, ■
Jimas Westover. Children: Ha:
.March 12, i<^*>i: Josiah. December 27, i<"i<<.
mentioned below : .Nathaniel. I'ebruary 10,
\Cnj8; daughter, died July 8, 1704; Elizalieth,
June 29. 1703; Dorothy, June 22. 1709.
(\1I) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (i) and
Hannah ( Westover) .Alford, was Ijorn Decem-
ber 2~. ifx/t, and died in December. 17'!.'* Hr
married, at Simsbury, Connecticut. '
i~2<K Mary (Case-Drake). lK>rn .
Children : Josiah. born .August 13, 1;., , ii.in-
nab, .\pril 2, 1730; Elijah, December 14, 1732;
lumice, ( )ctober 2<j. 1735: I'eletiah. .\i)ril 14,
1 739, mentioned below ; Jesse, Scplcinbcr,
"74I-
(\HI) Peletiah, .son of Josiah (2) and
.Mary (Case-Drake) .Alford, was born .April
14. I7.V> -tkI <lit*l < )ctol)er 25, 1804. In 1776
he served in Lieutenant Case's company, the
Eighteenth Regiment of militia. I le married.
September 22, i~(t8. .Anne Hacon.born July 13,
1749. died .April 13. 1803. Giildren : Peletiah,
Ixirn 17^19, mentioned Ix-low ; .Sanuiel. Septem-
ber 13. 1770: .Aima. .March 24. 1772. died Sep-
tember 18, 1773; Doris, November 23, 1773;
Jonas, Iwrn September 19, 1775; Jabcz. July
10. 1778.
( IN ) Peletiah ( 2 ). son of Peletiah ( 1 ) and
.Anne (Bacon) .Alford. was Iiom in itCk) and
died in 1823. Hi - ' ' '• - - t7<,3,
.Amanda Cadwell. ' i heir
daughter .Amand.i ' sie
Whiting \'l ).
Thomas Sherwoo<|. l)orn in
SHERWOOD Sherw.io<| Forest, Not-
tingham. England. 1386.
died in Fairfield. Connecticut. i'>33. He saile<l
from Ipswich, .April 2t. i'>.V»- '" the goo<l ship
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"Francis," John Cutting, master, and landed in
Boston, Massachusetts, in June of the same
year, accompanied b}' his wife AHce, born 1587,
and four children: Ann, born 1620; Rose,
1623 : Thomas, 1624 ; Rebecca, 1625. He set-
tled first at Wethersfield, where his name ap-
pears on the second list of settlers other than
those from Watertown. He settled in Fair-
field as early as 1643, when his name appears
on the Stamford land records. He served as
deputy with Roger Ludlow in the general
court, 1650. He brought with him to Fair-
field his second wife, Mary , by whom
he had six more children. His will is dated
July 21, 1655, and proved October 26, 1655.
(H) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) and
Alice Sherwood, was born in England, 1624.
He married (first) ■ ; (second) Ann,
daughter of Benjamin and Mary Turney. Chil-
dren : Mary, Benjamin, Samuel, Ruth, Abigail,
Hannah.
(HI) Benjamin, son of Thomas (2) and
Ann (Turney) Sherwood, died 1737. He mar-
ried Sarah , born 1692. Children : Mary,
Mindwell, Benjamin, Joseph, Noah, Sarah.
(IV) Joseph, son of Benjamin and Sarah
Sherwood, was born December i, 1702. Mar-
ried, February 17. 1730, Sarah Osborn, born
June, 171 1, daughter of Sergeant David and
Dorothy Osborn. Children : Grace, Eleazer,
Joseph, Jehiel, Grizel, David, Abel, Reuben.
(V) Jehiel, son of Joseph and Sarah (Os-
born) Sherwood, was born March i, 1739. He
built, in 1765, on Greenfield Hill, his comforta-
ble house, where with his wife (a very superior
woman) he reared his ten children. He served
•during the revolution, enlisting in Colonel
Beebe's regiment: sergeant in 1775, at Fish-
kill ; with Colonel Whiting in 1777, and ensign
of Fourth Company, Fourth Regiment, Janu-
ary, 1780. His house was used as a hospital
for the wounded after Trvon's raid. He mar-
ried, October 5, 1763, Sarah Squire, of Green-
field Hill, Connecticut. ChildreJi : Squire, Je-
hiel, Sarah, Lyman, Charity, Stephen, Abigail,
Mabel, Lyman, William. After the death of
his wife, about 1796, he disposed of the home
farm to his son Stephen, and with his two
youngest children settled on the ( )blong, nov.
South East, Putnam county. New York, pay-
ing for the farm when the line was finally es-
tablished. At his death it became the property
of his son Lyman and it has been in the pos-
session of his family to the present time. The
family burial plot is on this farm where the
families of Jehiel and Lyman are all interred.
(VI) Stephen, son of Jehiel and Sarah
(Squire) Sherwood, was born April 20. 1775,
died July 3, 1835. He married (first) Eulilla
Goodsell, born February 8, 1776, died March 4,
1814, daughter of David (born 1752) and
Anna (Beers) Goodsell, granddaughter of
Thomas (born December, 1731, died 1805)
and Miriam (Bradley) Goodsell (born 1737),
great-granddaughter of Rev. John (born De-
cember 21, 1705, died December 27, 1763),
and Mary (Lewis) Goodsell (born May 18,
1706, died December 11, 1769), married July
27, 1725, Rev. John, a graduate of Yale, 1724,
and great-great-granddaughter of Thomas
Goodsell, born in Somerset county, England,
1646, died at East Haven, Connecticut, 1713;
graduate of Trinity, Oxford University, 167^,
New Haven. 1678, married, June 4, 1684,
Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Coo-
per) Hemingway. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Sherwood: i. Alvah, born 1798, died unmar-
ried. 2. Eliza, born May, 1800, died May,
1888; she became the second wife of James
Beers. 3. Oran, see forward. 4. Betsey, born
October 29, 1807, died February 14, 1870;
married (first) Uriah Banks; (second) Thom-
as Merwin, born 1820, still living. 5. Norman.
6. Anna Beers, born February 29, 1812, died
February 12, 1883; married, October 4, 1832,
Frederick B. Wakeman, born June 17, 1811,
died February 3, 1893. Stephen Sherwood .
married (second) ' May 15, 1816, Tamer,
daughter of Moses and Abigail (Wakeman)
Banks. Children : Sarah, William, Emily,
Mary J., Frances, Wilson.
(VII) Oran, son of Stephen and Eulilla
(Goodsell) Sherwood, was born January 18,
1804, died January 2, 1848. He started out
in life as a teacher, but after his marriage
opened a general store at Newburg, New York,
but, possessing natural shrewdness, he soon
saw a better opening in the lumber trade. He
shortly afterward removed to New York City
and opened a yard in Cherry street : he was
very successful, conducting an excellent busi-
-ness in mahogany and fine woods from Mexico
and the West Indies. The schooner "Cham-
pion," owned by him, was captured and the
crew imprisoned during the Mexican war.
They all received indemnity — act of Congress
on Alexican war claims, 1850. He invested
largely in real estate in the Adirondacks and
in Fairfield, Connecticut, now Bridgeport ; he
built a handsome residence on his property in
Fairfield, and in 1840 took up his residence in
that town, and in 1846 sold the house and a
portion of the land to the late P. T. Barnum,
who named it "Iranistan," and it became the
well-known home of the famous showman. Mr.
Sherwood soon after retired from active busi-
ness, devoting his time to his home interests. .
He died January 2, 1848, in the new house
which he had erected near the old one. He
married Fanny Wakeman, born June 27, 1804,
CONM.t 1 11 If
(/<)
(littl March 21, 1S83. Chililren : 1. Kichimmd,
born Aiitjust 15. 1S25, (lic<l June if>. iHij2;
niarrictl llamiali Sworils : children: Lavinia,
born iS'^, died December 21, i8iV>, married
Georfje \V. Warner; Jessie, born 18.%, dietl
Sei)tenil)cr j8. 181JO. 2. Franklin, see forward.
3. Lavinia. Imrn heceniber iH. lH_?3; niarrie<l,
April 3. 1S55. John M. lli>lcomb; died No-
veniber 24. 1S57. 4. Houston, lioni Se[)teni-
ber 4. 1835. liied May 29. 183(1. 3. Fannie,
born April c^. 1841 ( Mrs. \Vhitini;).
(\'lll) I'Vanklin. son of ( )ran and l-"anny
( Wakeman ) Sherwood, was born Jime 28,
1829. died January 3, 1908. He was born and
educated in New York City and came to
Hridfjeport with liis father in 1840. Having
been a lover of books and study, he early be-
came interested in newspaper work, associat-
injj himself with several duriiitj his younger
days.
He is best known as the cilitor of Tlw
I.Ciiiii'i . a famous weekly paper that dealt
almost exclusively with city politics. This he
published from February 21. 1872, to 1899; it
was dnrin;; this time that he gave to the i)ub-
lic his famous reminiscences — ■'P.ridgeport As
It Was" — which was eagerly sought after by
those desiring a comiilete history of the city's
political and Inisiness life. In this history he
brought to the work the aid of his remarka-
ble memorv and his storehouse of records and
papers which were unsur|)assed in reference to
nridgejiort and the surrounding country. He
was of marked indejiendence. and despised the
modern nioiles of jiolitics, and was a strong
believer in ".America for the .-Xmcricans." He
married, December 24, 1854, Mary A. Weller,
born 1839. died Xovember 14. I<p8. Children:
I. Franklin Jr.. horn June 2d'. iSUi; married,
January 7. 1S83. Jessie Ilotchkiss. liorn Ai)ril
1, i8^>o; children: Mabel Richmond, born Oc-
tober 21. 1883: F-annie Hotchkiss, April 3,
1891 ; I-'ranklin. February 29. |89(). 2. Rich-
mond, born .August 8. 1861 ; married Irene
Lyon: child. Ruth, born October 8. 1889. 3.
Charles Henry, born May 2j. 1868: married,
Sei)teniber 2-. 1893. .Mice S. Piercy : child,
lliftiii) R<i'(|, burn C)ctober8, 1896.
The ancient English surname
CLRTl.S.S Curtis is also siiellcd Curtiss.
Curtesse. Curteis and Curtoys.
Stejihen Curtiss was of .\p)ile.lore, Kent,
about 1450, and several of his descendants
were mayors of Tenterden. a town where
many settlers in Scituate, Massachusetts,
came from. The family has also lived from
an ancient date in county Sussex. The an-
cient coat-of-arms is thus described: .\rgent
a chevron sable between three bulls heads cn-
Ijoi'hcil gule-. t tr~i .\ \iniKini )>.i- nf Ih:-
tween four trees pruper.
( I I \\ illiam Lurti«s. ihc ancestor, live«l in
l-'.ngl.ind and irubably died there. His widow
l''.Ii/:ilietli an<l ><.ins John and William settled
in Stratford, Connecticut, in i'>39.
( II ( William (2). sen of William ( I) Cur-
tiss, came to Stratford, (onneclicut, with his
wiilowed mother Flizabetb and his brother
John. I le was one of the first settlers of the
place in 1^)39. He married (first* Mary
; (second) about 1680, Sarah, widow
of Fnsign William fioodrich, ■■:'
field. Connecticut, and ilaugbter
Morris, of Hartford. He died Ik .:.
1702. His will was dated December 15, 1702,
and proved DecemlK'r 31, 1702. His wife died
about the time he did. The will of his njother
I'lizabeth was proved June 4. 1^165. (.'hil-
dren: Sarah, Ixjrn (Jctober i ■■ ■ r
than, l-ebruary 14, i'^>44:
I, 164O; .\bigail, .April 21. 1
vcmber 16, 1O52; Flizabet ij,
1654; Ebenezer. July 6. 1O5; , No-
vember 14, l'i59, mentioned Itt ln\ , Josiah,
August 30, \(/i2.
(Ill) Zachariah, son of William (2) Cur-
tiss, was born November 14, i'j.V;. died June,
174S. He married Hannah, daughter of Na-
thaniel Porter. She died in 1738, aged sev-
enty-three years. Chiltlren : Zachariah. men-
tioned below ; Nathaniel, married Hannah
Wales, November 2~, 1712; Jeremias. bap-
tized .May. 1706.
(I\) Zachariah (2), son of Zachariah ( i)
Curtiss, died June 12. 1748. He married
Mary . Giildren : .Mitchell. Ix-rn 1 -■■
ary, 1721-22; Eunice, October 3. 1722; M
November r>, 1724; Rhoda. I
Ileulah, February 5, 1727--"
tember 21, 1729: Susannah. '
( \' ) Mitchell, son of Zachanaii (21 Cur-
tiss. was Ixmi September 21. 172*;. He mar-
ried, February 11. 1733, Phebe,
Deacon Thomas Peet. Children
born September 17. 1/33: Dam. i
January 3. 1733. mentioned below;
.\nne. November 7. I73^>: Pheln;. July. 1 ,
Isaac, December. i7'/».
(\T) Daniel Mitchell, son of Nfitchdl Cur-
tiss, was Imrn January 3. 1753. '' 1
Hepsy P.urr, June 24, 1778. CI
tus liurr, lx>rn January ij, \J^\ \
below; EIv, SeptemlK-r' If), 1781 ; Mary, Feb-
ruary 14, 178^1; Daniel, March 8. 1788; Hep-
sibah, September if), i/'io.
(\IIi lu.stns P.urr. son of Daniel Mitchell
Curtiss. was born January 27, 1780. He re-
si<led at NichoK. ( onnecticut, where he was
1 ,. in, .nil I and iiiiRT. and died there. He
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married Huldah Edwards, of Chestnut Hill,
Fairfield county, Connecticut. Children : El-
liott Plumb, Henry, Aiunson. Emeline, Ma-
tilda, Silvia, Susan, Elizabeth, who married
Aaron Sherwood.
(VHI) Elliott Plumb, son of Justus Burr
Curtiss, was born at Nichols, Connecticut,
April 22, 1 8 14. He was educated in the dis-
trict school. In his youth he became inter-
ested in the manufacture of saddle-trees, a
then flourishing industry at Nichols. He
worked at his trade one year in St. Louis. Mis-
souri, then returned to Nichols and worked
until the factory at Nichols was abandoned,
when he engaged in farming and continued at
that until his death, i\Iarch 10, 1896. He was
interested in public affairs and for many years
served in the state militia. He was one of the
founders of the Methodist Episcopal church
and a prime mover in building the present
building. He married Clarissa, born at Green-
field Hill, daughter of David and Lucy Bulk-
ley, who were the parents of two children :
Clarissa, mentioned above, and Lucy, who
married Bond, of New York. Chil-
dren : Hamilton, died in infancy ; Lizzie, died
young; Isabel, married Horace P. Nichols, of
Nichols; Elliott Plumb Jr., mentioned below;
Nathan Bulkley, born j\Iay 14, 1857, in part-
nership for many years with his brother in the
firm of Curtis Brothers, dealers in stoves and
heaters, and plumbers ; this partnership con-
tinued until the death of Elliott P. in 1894,
when the business was closed out, and in
1898 he formed a partnership with Abraham
Wellington in the same line of business. This
continued until 1906 when he bought out Mr.
Wellington, since which time he has conducted
the business alone. In politics he is a Repub-
lican, was an assessor of Nichols for several
years, and was also on the school board, act-
ing as school visitor for several years. Has
taken an active part in the Methodist Episco-
pal church in Nichols, having served several
years on the board of stewards and fourteen
years as superintendent of Sunday school. He
married. October 20, 1881, at Cornwall, Con-
necticut. Mary Ann. daughter of Rev. \^'il-
liam T. Gilbert ; children : Clifford Gilbert,
born July, 28, 1883 ; Elizabeth Bulkley, May
7, 1885, deceased; John Burr, October 6, 1887';
Cornelia, June 4, 1889, died in infarcv.
(IX) Elliott Plumb (2) Curtis (as he
spelled the name, although his children spell
it Curtiss), son of Elliott Plumb (i) Curtiss,
was born at Nichols, July 26, 1853, died July
24, 1894, at Bridgeport. He attended the pub-
lic schools of his native town and the Strong
School. He began his career in the Bridge-
port post office, where he remained two vears.
Th.en became a clerk in the drug store of L.
W. Booth, where he remained two years. He
was then in the employ of the John S. Way
Alanufacturing Company of Bridgeport, after
which he became a partner with John H.
Flinch, in the grocery business in Shelton,
where he remained three years. He entered
partnership with his brother, Nathan Bulkley
Curtis, under the firm name of Curtis Broth-
ers, buying the Leavenworth store in 1884.
They carried on an extensive business as
plumbers and dealers in stoves and furnaces
for a period of ten years. His death cut short
a promising career. He had demonstrated un-
usual business ability and had his life been
spared would have taken a prominent place in
the business world. In politics he was a Re-
publican. He was a member of all the Ma-
sonic bodies, including the Commandery ; of
the Roof-Tree Club ; a member of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, and took a great inter-
est in that. He was a man who loved his
home' and preferred the society of his family
to any club, and his memory is fondly cher-
ished by his widow and children. He was be-
loved by all who knew him for his many fine
qualities of heart and mind.
He married, fune. 1883. at Bridgeport.
Anna Belle Hatcli Hall (see Flail MI). Chil-
dren: Clara, born December 11, 1884; Elliott,
May 7, 1886. a clerk in the Pequonnock Bank ;
Mildred Rebecca, August 16. 1888: Louise
H., January 15, 1892.
(The Hall Line).
( I ) Francis Hall, immigrant ancestor, was
the son of Gilbert Hall, who lived in Kent,
England. He came to America from Mil-
ford, county of Surrey, with his brother Wil-
liam, in the ship with Rev. Henry Whitefield
and the latter's company, ^^'illiam Hall set-
tled in Guilford. Connecticut, and Francis in
New Haven, where he arrived in time to par-
ticipate in a meeting of colonists held June 4,
1639. The following year he joined in the en-
terprise of planting a new settlement at the
head of a small inlet on Long Island Sound,
which they named Fairfield. At this time Mr.
Hall was thirty-two \ears old. In 1654 he
purchased land in Fairfield, and in 1659 more
land in Stratford, Connecticut, where he set-
tled several years later. Here he was an attor-
ney-at-law, and continued his practice almost
to the time of his death. In 1669 he held
the office of constable in Stratford, and Alay
ri, 1676. was a deputy to the general court
held in Hartford. He married (first) in Eng-
land, Elizabeth , who with two sons,
Isaac and Samuel, came with him from Eng-
land. She died, it is supposed in Fairfield
6//^o// 9'. ^u.a:
A A I'.i 1 i< I 1
071
July ^>. i(''>S- lie niarricil (si-cciii'l), ( Vtohcr
30, i'>^>5, l)<in)tliy, widow of John I'.laki-man,
and dauj^htcT of Rev. Henry Smith. I-Vancis
Hail died March 3, {f<H<j-(jo. His will was
dated May (>. i()H(>. and proved March 14,
lAS(;-i)(). thildren: Isaac. Iiorn in l-ji),'lan<l.
niiMitior.ciI below; ."^aiiniel, alxuit i'>,?5; .\Iarv,
Elizalieth, Rebecca, died March jS, ifxjo;
Hannah, married, July 14, if)75, Joscj)!! lilakc-
man. of Stratfnrd.
(Ill Dr. Isaac Hall, son of Francis Hall was
born about \(>2ij. in the county of Kent, I-'nf:;-
land. and came to this country with his parents
when a boy. He settled in l'"airfield with his
father, and became an eminent |)hysician and
surgeon. In the latter capacity he rendered
service in the colonial militia during the Indian
wars, for which he received a jjrant of land in
I-'airfield. Previously, in if>t>o. he had received
from his father a large estate in the same
town. He took the oath of fidelity to the colo-
nial fjovernmcnt in if>5y. He is sujjposed to
have been a i)roprictor oi W'allingford, Con-
necticut, in if>70. He married. Jamiary iC>,
if/id. Lydia. daughter of Xicholas Knapj). nf
[•"airfield, who survived him. He diecl in I'air-
field, in 1714. Children: Isaac, born .\dvem-
ber 8. i''/)7, mentioned below; Sarah, May 3.
i6f)8; Lydia, September 20, 1670; liilizabeth,
November 11. 1^^172; Sanniel. September 14.
1674: I'rancis, September 2f\ \(t~fi: John,
I'ehruary 8, if •77, died yoimg; John, January
.V "'7';: Mary, .\ugust 7. i(>8i ; .Abigail. .\i)ril
I. i'h83; Jonathan. December 2. 1084.
( III ) Isaac (2). son of Dr. Isaac (1 ) Hall,
was born Xovember 8. 1C167. He married
(first) about K183. Hannah . who died
in i(x>4. He married (second) Sarah .\nn
, widow. He became a physician and a
l>artner with his father in the practice of
medicine in i')8o. He died in Redtling, Con-
necticut, in .\ugust. i757-''7. Children: Sam-
uel, mentioned below; Isaac; Lydia, baptized
.Scptemlier, I098; llurgcs, ba|)tized Xovember,
1701, in Stratford: Jesse, baptized 1703. in
Stratford; .\sa, baptized I'ebruary, 1705-of).
in Stratford: Joshua, baptized Xovember.
170S. in Stratford: .Ann. baptize<l July, 171 1,
in Stratford; Jane, baptized December. i~i2.
in Stratford.
il\) Samuel, son of Lsaac (2) Hall, ilied
I'ebruary 8, 1734. He married, July 21). 1714.
Sarah .SilJiman. Children: David, born July
12. 1715, died February 15. 1725: Martha.
.April 9, 1717; Samuel. December 16, 1720:
Xathanicl. Xovember 3. 1721 ; F'benczer.
March 12. 1723, mentioned below; Sarah,
February 20. 1724: Mary. ScptemlK-r 18,
I72f>: David, June 20. 1728: .Abel, July 12,
i/.?o.
(\) Fl.eii./,i. > .^.,,,,.,,1 Hall, was
Ixirn .March 12, 1723. He married and had
a son Daniel, mentioned below.
(\'I) Daniel, son of KlK-nezcr Hall, was
born November y, 1758. He marrie.l Jem-
ima Turney. l)orn May 28. ijiu. G»ildrcn :
labiiha. .\lal)el, liirney. .\lan>->n. see fi>r-
war<l, Zalnion. .Alban, lUnjamin.
(\II) .Manson, son of Daniel Hall, was
Ixjrn in Trumbull, Connecticut, September 25,
i-<t<x die<l June 18, iW>3. He married Sophia
.Shelton I'.dwanls. iKjrn Octolicr 2, I7<>5. at
Lcing Hill, dieil January 7. 18(12. Oiildren;
I. .Slulton l.ynson. I)<«rn April 11. 1813; niar-
rieil, in 1845, Klizaln-th 1'. .\ppleton ; children:
i. Mary .\ppleton. married .\m<is,
child. Slary, died 1883; ii. Jnmp< Appleton,
ilmwned ; iii. I\lizabelh Slub n ; iv.
Saiuuel Kilward .\pi leton, : the
Cniversity of Wisconsin; ni.u.M.i 1 u liii S,
Diirant, of Racine. July, iHUfy; v. Sarah
I'uller .Appleton. deceased. 2. Samuel Bald-
win, born May 3, i8ifi, died Decemlnrr >ji,
1870: marrie<l, December 23. 1843. Sarah
Walker: children: i. Louise .Stirling Hall.
born .September 22. 184(1. died in 18.H7; ji
I'rank .S\lvaiuis Mall, born Ma\ 13, 1830, died
in 1888 of heart disease. 3. Harriet, born
November <). 1817. died .April 13, 1843; mar-
ried. June. 1838, James D. Mrinsmadc ; chil-
dren : i. I'ranklyn i'. Mrinsmadc, Ixirn June
(\ 1840. married Julia I'ardee: children:
H.ittie and lora Itrinsmade: ii. Ilatiie S.
I'.rin-<made. <hed aged eighteen months. 4.
Charles Hobart. born March 2. 1819; marrietl,
l"ebruary 12. 1830. Delia Plumb; daughter,
Flla Flizabeth Hall, lx>rn I'ebruary 24, 1871.
married, June 2J. i<;oo. ICdward ( ). .Mara.
3. Claudius Mamford, born December (>, 1821 ;
ma^ried, Jidy i, 1847, .Anna \'. I'erry; chil-
dren: i. .Austin P. Hall, born October 9,
1830: ii. Clifford P. Hall, January ri. 1837;
iii. I'rank P. Hall, 1839 :'iv. Carlton Hall.
6. Fdwarrl Turney. Ixirn .\ugnst 28, 1823:
married. May. i83(>, .*^arah Jennings; (sec-
ond) .Mary lluckley: child of first wife: Min-
nie, died June. i8o<): children of sec<«ni| wife:
Kugene, Marietta. Fdwarrl, (.linton, die<l 1^102.
7. < )rmel .Alanson. Inirn .\pril i. 1823: mar-
ried. July. 1848, Rebecca Nichols Hatch:
chililren: i. Anna Marie Hall, died aged four
years, eight months; ii. Oimel Howard Hall.
married Lucinda ( j. Clark, deceased; one
child, deceased: married (sccon<l> Carrie
Lock-wood; children: Ormel Hnwarrl, Jr. and
Raymond Hall; iii. Aima lielle Hatch Mall,
married Flliott I*. Curti-s. and bad a sun and
three daughters (see Curtiss L\ ) : iv. Mel-
ville I'dwards Hall, married Mary Hammond:
children: Mav ami (iladvs Hall: v. Freder-
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ick W'illey Hall, married Stella Nichols: chil-
dren: Pauline and Ruth Hall; vi. Daniel Clif-
ford Hall, married Grace Boughton ; children :
Grace Boughton and Helen Hall. 8. Eliza
Jane, born March 3, 1827; married, March
22, 1866, James D. Brinsmade, whom her
sister Harriet had formerly married : died
August 6, 1904; child, Charles Edwards
Brinsmade, married Ada Fairchild : children :
Dora, Mittie and Arthur Dwight Brinsmade.
9. Francis Leander, born June 15, 1828; mar-
ried Esther Andrews, and died June 2j, 1867.
10. Theodore Sturges, born September 3,
1829, died February 22, 1867, aged thirty-
six years. 11. Rnfus Warren, born December
13, 1830; married Emily Smith: children:
Adna, Emma, Mary Sophia, Rufus Warren :
the father died June 4, 1880, aged fifty. 12.
Susan Ann, born January 23, 1832, died Feb-
ruary 12, 1895: married Charles E. Plumb:
children : i. Willard Plumb, married Ida Sum-
mers : ii. Eddie Plumb, died October 28, 1863,
aged four years ; iii. Frank Plumb, married,
November 2y , 1890, Lizzie Tait ; iv. Arthur
Plumb, now deputy sheriff in Bridgeport,
Connecticut : married, November 27, 1890,
Lottie Bennett, deceased. 13. George Au-
gustus, born January 8, 1835, died June 30,
1839. 14. Julia Gorham, October 2, 1836;
married, December 25, 1861, Stephen M.
Nichols, died July 29. 1870 (see Nichols IX).
15. George Augustus, born March 14, 1838;
married Lottie Loper ; children : i. Clarence
Loper, died aged three years ; ii. Frank Loper,
died- in infancy : iii. George A. Loper, mar-
ried, in 1887, Emily Garlick : they reside in
California ; have one daughter, Irene ; iv.
Lottie Loper, died December 3, 1885.
(HI) Josiah Curtis, son of Will-
CURTIS iam (2) Curtis (Curtiss) (q.
v.), was born in Stratford, Au-
gust 30, 1662. He married (first) Abigail,
daughter of Lieutenant Joseph and Sarah Jud-
son, of Stratford, in July, 1692. She died in
1697, and he married (second) ]\Iary,
daughter of Benjamin and Mary Beach, of
Stratford. In May, 17 14, he was appointed
captain of the train band of Stratford by the
general court, and in 1716 he was deputy to
the general court. On December 29, 1725, he
was permitted, with John Wilcoxson, Jr., to
build a saw mill on the Halfway river. He
died in 1745, and his wife died in 1759. His
will was proved November 20, 1745, at Fair-
field. Children, born in Stratford : W'illiam,
September 22, 1693 : Abigail, 1695 : Anna,
1697: Eunice, .'\ugust i, 1699: Abraham, men-
tioned below: Josiah, January 6. 1702-03:
Benjamin, December 25, 1704; Peter, April
I, 1707; Matthew, December 16, 1708, died
young: Mary, July 25, 171 1; Matthew, De-
cember I, 1712: Charles, January i, 1715-16;
Mehitabel, January i, 1715-16.
(IV) Abraham, son of Josiah Curtis, was
born in Stratford, May 16, 1701. He mar-
ried Elizabeth, daughter of John and [Mary
\Velles, of Stratford, February 25, 1724-25.
She died in Stratford, August 31, 1770. He
died there September 7, 1779. Children, born
in Stratford : Stephen, mentioned below : Eliz-
abeth. November 25, 1729.
(V) Stephen, son of Abraham Curtis, was
born in Stratford, June 3, 1727. He married
(first) Tabatha Beardslee, July 28, 1745;
(second) Sarah Judson, October 17, 1749.
She died November 2, 1794, and he died May
8, 1806. His will was filed in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, June 2, 1806. Children, all born
in Stratford: Abraham, November, 1747,
died young: James. August 17, 1748; Sarah,
October 10, 1750: Jerusha, August i. 1751,
died young; Jerusha, March 21, 1753; Abra-
ham, February 6, 1754 : Hannah, July 14,
1755 : Stephen Judson, July 5, 1757, died June
17, 1760: William. August, 1758: Stephen
Judson, 1761 : Sarah, August 4, 1765: Belle,
February 6, 1767; Phebe, September 6, 1769;
Levi, mentioned below.
(VI) Levi, son of Stephen Curtis, was
born in Stratford. March 26, 1772. He mar-
ried (first) Sarah ; (second) Eliza-
beth L^fford. He died in Stratford. February
21, 1854. Children, all born in Stratford:
Phebe : Betsey, married Robert Lovejoy ;
Cornelia, married George Wellington Shelton ;
Sarah, married Isaac Wells ; Elbert : Stephen,
mentioned below ; Willis : Peter, born April
3. 1797; Matthew, December 16, 1808: Mary;
Martha ; Charles ; Mehitable.
(VII) Stephen (2), son of Levi Curtis, was
born at Stratford, 1799, died there in 1861.
He followed farming in his native town, and
also engaged in fishing in the Connecticut
river, being the owner of a number of seine
rights. He was also a Thomsonian doctor.
He married Alaria Birdseye, of Stratford.
She died there at the age of eighty-eight
years. Children : Calvin, died young ; Calvin ;
Thaddeus : Robert ; George ; Sarah, who mar-
ried Preston Henry Hodges in 1879, he is now
deceased, she is still living in Stratford.
(\TII) Robert George, son of Stephen (2)
Curtis, was born at Stratford, June 2. 1825,
died October 4, 1910. He received his edu-
cation in the public schools and the Stratford
Academy. He assisted his father in farming
and fishing, and followed those occupations
all his life. He inherited from his grand-
mother two seine rights on the river, and
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when tlic shad used tn run |ili.-ntiltilly made
a considerable income iruiu them, though
good shad were tlien sold fur only a nickel
each. ()i late years he made a specialty of
general farming, lie iiad much >kill with
tools. With the aid of a carpenter he huilt
his own house. an<l in his home are tables,
bookcases and a grandfather's cluck, which
he made. The clock especially is an exquisite
bit uf workmanshij). lie was an ardent Re-
publican in politics. He attended the Congre-
gational church. lie belonged lo no clubs or
organization>, and <levuted himself to his
home and family. I le was highly esteemed
by his townsmen for his many good qualities
of mind and heart, his integrity and sound
judgment. lie married. ( )ctobcr 24. 1850,
Sarah Wells, born June 8. 1825. died June
15, i<>05. Chililren : 1. Uelle. born l-'ebruary
13, 185J. dieil at Stratford. .March J2, 1859.
2. Claris.sa .Ailing, born Se])tember 7, i85f>,
married Dr. Lewis, of Stratford, .\i)ril 2y,
1886. and they have six children : Robert Cur-
tis, born March 3, 1888; I'rederick Bradley,
July .V i88(); Eleanor Wells, ."September 24.
i8ix>: b^stber Coe, November 5, 1891 : Claribel
May. December _^i. i8gJ: Clarence Birdsey,
February 24, 181)4. .1 Maria Birdsey, born
June 13, 18^)2.
(Ill) Thomas Curtis, son of
t L'RTIS John Curtis (([. v.). was born
at Stratford. January 14. i^qS.
He was admitted a freeman in Clctober, 1670.
He was captain of the train band in Walling-
ford, was one of the ori_'inal proprietors of
W'allingford in Octol)er. \(>f*). and a signer
of the oriu'inal covenant, ami wa< also a sur-
veyor. His name appears among tliose acting
at a church meeting in i^i/O. the earliest rec-
ord of the town. He was dejiuty to the gen-
eral court in i<)8o-i7i4-i7 : constable i(v8i :
town treasurer in i(k86. In fa:t during bis
long life he tilled almost ever\ ollice in the
gift of his felluw town>men. \\\< will was
filed May 3. I7.V>. lH.M|ueathing to wife and
children. He m:irried, June u, l'^i74. Mary,
flaughter uf Nathaniel, suldier in I'equot war,
I'l.V'. and .Abigail Merriman. of Wallingford.
Children, lK)rn at Wallingford: Mary. Octo-
ber i,v i'>75: Nathaniel. .May 14. 1077, men-
tioned below; Samrel. l-'ebruary .^, 1(178: l-"liz-
abetb, September 11. if>8o: Hannah. Decem-
ber _^ 1*182: Thomas \ugu-t 20. 1^X5: Sarah,
October i, 1687; Abigail, November 3, 1689;
Jo>.e|ib, October 1, i(n)i : Jemima, January 15,
i(K)4: Reltecca. August 21, i'>07: John, -Sep-
tember 18. I(KX).
CIV) Nathaniel, son of Thomas Curtis, was
l«irn at Wallingfor<l. May 14. 1^)77. He was
a farmer in that part of .Meridcn. call..! I'alK
Plains, now Hanover. He wa-
1 7 17, constable in 1729, ami b'
other town offices. He died Mai
\\i- will was filed at New Haven,
He married (first) .\pril 6, 1697, .--.....,, ,.,..,,
uf Wallingford; >he ilied December 13. 1700.
He married (secomh July >,. i.-j. Sarah,
daughter of Zachariah and ^tiert)
How, of Wallingford; -.be 'v 4.
1740. ageil sixty-five. He
( )clober 11. 1741, I'liek- Baf
of .Micah I 'aimer, of Branfoi
uary 5, 1763. aged sixty-nine. Children. Ixirn
at \\allingford : Benjamin, mentioned liclow ;
Hannah, l-ebruary 19. 1705; Moses, August
<>, 170^1; Knos, .March 19. 1708; Nathan, May
12, 1709; Jacob, .\ugu>t 23. 1710; Sarah,
March 30, 1712: Aliigail, .April 9, 1713;
Kliada. March 30, 1714; Comfort, October 30,
I7i(>: Nathaniel. January 1, 1718; Rho<la.
(\') I'lCnjamin. son of Nathaniel Curtis,
was iKirn at Wallingford, .April 27, 1703. He
was admitted to the .Meriden church. May 10,
1731. In 1744-53 he was titlr- ' — r
surveyor of highways. Hi-
ber 12, 1727. .\liriam. daught'
Hope C(K>k, of Wallingford. He died C>ct<j-
ber 30, 1754: she <lied May 29, 1776, aged
seventy-four. ChiKlren, liorn at Wallingford:
E-.tlier. October 2. 1728; .Abel, December 22,
1720; Susannah, Noveml)er 9. 1732: I^iis.
September 30, 1733: Benjamin, mentioned !«.•-
low: Miriam, .August 30, 1737; Sarah. May
-0. '739: Ruth. September 21, 1741; Aaron,
November 8. 1744.
(\ I) Benjamin (2). son ■ ' " m d)
Curtis, was born in parish < ' )cto-
bcr 2j. 1735. He was town - :. 1775-
7(1 .nnd signed the oath of fidelity m 1777.
I Ic was one of the largest landowners in Wall-
ingfor<l and became a most prominent citi-
zen. He was a man of strong individuality,
shrewd and succe>;sful. He served in the
French and Indian wars in 1758. He mar-
rieil. .March 31, I7<13. .Mindwell. daughter of
Daniel Hough, of same parish. He died Jan-
uary 1(1. 1822: she died June 8. 1807. Chil-
dren: I.iicy, born February 14. 176.1: .Aaron.
February 9. 1705: Benjamin. Nfav 10, 17'i'S;
Fiinice, January 13. 17^18: .Ama.s.i. Jjme 19.
1770; Ivah. October 10. 1771 (son): Elisha.
June ro. 1773: Lvdia. Nf.iy 4. 1775: Ruth.
Nfarch 18. 1777: .\mos. .April 14. 1779: Sam-
uel. June 30, 1781 ; I.yilia. February 5. 1785:
Asalicl. mentioned below: Roswcll. December
24. 1788.
f\'in Asahel. ■^on of Benjamin (2) Curti«.
was born in parish of NJeriden in Walling-
ford, July 2, 1786. He was a member of
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'Compass Lodge, of Wallingford, and charter
member of Meriden Lodge in 1851 and the
first senior warden. He was appointed en-
sign by Governor Oliver Wolcott, May 20,
1820; tax collector, June 6, 1825; town treas-
urer, June 18, 1834; representative to the gen-
eral assembly from Meriden in 1836. He was
a private in the war of 1812. He married,
November 8, 1812, Mehitable, daughter of
Augustus and Anna (Grinnell) Redfield, of
Clinton, Connecticut ; she was descended from
William Redfield, one of the early settlers,
and Anna (Grinnell) Redfield was a descen-
dant of John and Priscilla Alden. Children,
born at Meriden: Jennett, March 14, 1814;
Phebe Ann, June 21, 1815 ; Benjamin Upson,
July 20, 1817; Asahel, February 25, 1821 ;
George Redfield, mentioned below.
( Vni) George' Redfield, son of Asahel Cur-
tis, Was born at Meriden, December 25, 1825,
died May 20, 1893. He was educated in the
public schools, and started in business in Mid-
dletown, Connecticut. After a few years he
began to teach school near Rochester, New
York, and a year or so later in ]\Ieriden, Con-
necticut. About 1850 he became teller in
the Meriden Bank and in 1852 when the Mer-
iden Britannia Company was organized, he
accepted the oflice of treasurer of that com-
pany and held it until his death. He was also
president of the Meriden Silver Plate Com-
pany, Meriden Gas Light Company, Meriden
Electric Railroad Company and a director of
numerous other corporations. He was mayor
■of Meriden, 1879-81, and filled many other
positions of trust and honor. He was always
■deeply interested in St. Andrew's Church and
was junior and senior warden for many years,
and many times its delegate to the diocesan
conventions, and in 1892 was state delegate
to the general convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland.
He gave generously to All Saints Memorial
Church in Meriden, which his sister, Mrs.
R. A. Hallam, had donated, and the day be-
fore his death presented a new rectory to the
church. He married. May 22. 1855. Augusta,
•daughter of Jesse and Sophia (Talmadge)
Munson, of Bradford, New York (see Mun-
son VH). Children, born at Meriden : George
Munson, mentioned below ; Frederick Edgar,
born August 12, 1861, died September 10,
1869: Agnes Deshon, April 10, 1863: mar-
ried, May 22, 1890, Allen B. Squire, and died
May 20, 1900.
(IX) George Munson, son of George R.
Curtis, was born at Meriden, May 27, 1857.
He received his education in the public schools
of Meriden, the Military School at Cheshire
and Trinity College, Hartford. He began his
business life as a clerk in the oftice of the
Meriden Britannia Company and was its as-
sistant treasurer for five years. Upon the
death of his father he was elected treasurer
and held that office until the company was
merged with the International Silver Com-
pany in 1898, becoming at that time the first
assistant treasurer of the new corporation.
Since 1900 he has been treasurer of the com-
pany. He is secretary and treasurer of Mer-
iden Gas Light Company, and Meriden Elec-
tric Light Company, director and president of
Curtis Memorial Library, Meriden ; a director
of Home National Bank, Meriden Trust &
Safe Deposit Company, and Meriden Savings
Bank, trustee and secretary of the Curtis
Home Corporation, and director of Manning
Bowman & Company. He resides in Meriden.
He is a student of history and wrote the his-
torical part of "A Century of Meriden" (pub-
lished by the Journal Company in 1906). He
resides in Meriden and is keenly interested in
the welfare and development of that city. In
politics he is a Republican, and in religion
an Episcopalian. He is a member of Con-
necticut Llistorical Society, Hartford : New
Haven Colony Historical Society ; American
Historical Association ; Grolier Club of New
York ; Home Club and Colonial Club, Mer-
iden, and Delta Psi fraternity. He married,
November 30, 1886, Sophie Phillips, only
daughter of Thomas Trowbridge and Cath-
arine (Hurlburt) Mansfield, of Meriden. She
was born May i, 1864. They have one child,
Agnes Mansfield Curtis, born September 6,
1887, educated at St. Margaret's School at
Waterbury, Connecticut, and St. Timothy's
School at Catonsville, Maryland. She mar-
ried, June I, 1910, William Bowen Church, of
Meriden.
(The Munson Line).
(Ill) Joseph Munson, son of Samuel Mun-
son (q. v.), was born November i, 1677, died
October 30, 1725. He lived in Wallingford,
Connecticut. His first residence was at the
south end of the village on the west side of
the principal street, and in June, 1714, "The
lower end of the town" was said to begin at
Joseph Munson's. He retained the ownership
of these eleven acres, but acquired a new
homestead of twenty-eight acres where he was
living at the last, and which became the home-
stead of his son Joseph. This place appears
to have been within the bounds of the first
parish, as the deaths of Joseph and three of
his children were entered in the First Church
records. December 28, 1703, he was chosen
fence viewer with one other, for the lower end
of the town. In October, 1712, he was made
ensign by act of assembly of the east com-
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jiany or train hand. On December 29. 1713,
lie and Saimicl Munson were chosen two of
tlie five townsmen, lie was first of four
i,'ran(l jurymen in 1719. He also held other
oftices in the town. lie left one-third of his
estate to his wife, and the remainder was
divided among his t)ther heirs in nine ])arts.
He married, March 10, 1700, .Margery,
daughter of John Hitchcock. She was born
!>e|)temlier (>. i(>Si, and in March. 17^14, she
was said ii> be "deceased." His widow .Mar-
gery married Stephen Peck, of W'allingford,
Jaimary 1, 1727. Children: .\bcl, Ixjrn Janu-
ary 10, 1701 : Abigail, .\|iril 2, 1704: Joseph,
l)eceml:cr 2-,, 1705: Desire. I-ebruary, 1707-
oS : Thankful. January 17, 1710: Kphraim,
mentioned bel'>w: .Margery, October 10, 1717:
Jemima, .March 2y, 1720: .\gur, .\pril 7, 1725.
( 1\') l'!()hraim, Min of Joscjih ^illnson, was
born in Wallingford. November 3. 1714. died
Se])tember 21. 1770. He was a husbandman,
anil lived in ISranfonl, Connecticut, and (Iran-
ville, Massachusetts. His guardian, chosen
June 4, 1729, was Ichabod ^Ierriam. He was
still of I'ranford. March 11, 1742; he was an
early settler of (jranville. Tin's territory was
sold in \(i<ft by Toto, "an Indian, to Cornish,
for a gim and si.xteen brass buttons, and in
171S was conveyed to "a set of projjrietors."
The original name of the place was Rcdfonl.
."^amuel llancroft was the first settler.
I".l)hraim Mimson was ami>ng the few follow-
ing. He married. May, 1739, Comfort,
daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Howe)
Curtis. She was born Oct<iber 13, 171(1.
thildrcn : Jesse, born December i, 1740:
Jared. mentioned below; Margery. 1744:
Kphraim. 1743 : Thaddeiis (twin) 1747: Com-
fort (twin), 1747: Hannah. 1749: .Adah.
1731 ; lemima. His widow married (second)
— ^ -■ P.ishop.
(\') Jared, son of Ephraim Munson, was
born about 1742, died July 30. 1823. He lived
in Manchester, \'ermont. There is a tradition
that he was born in Sufiield. During his
childhood and youth bis home was in Gran-
ville, where he was still living when thirty
years of age. .\t thirty-five years of age,
he lived in I,anesl>orough. Massachusetts. He
removed to Manchester in 1778. and became a
freeman there. March 29, 1779. Nearly the
wliole village of Manchester is built on con-
fiscated Tory projierty. Jared Munson se-
cured two hundred acres lying west of the
main street north of the north line of Shattuck
place. His house was the first south of the
Congregational Church. He had some part
in the revolutionary war. His name was on
the "Pay roll Capt. Gideon Ormsbee Co. in
Col. Ira .Mien Regt. of Militia — for service
done this State in the alarn
lyik)." Judge F.ovebivl Mv!
reference to !
have had .1'
cause, for al
here in 177^
Tories li\ >
pendeil He iii.o
norah. iosopb ll.i
K"st 3.
i«3-'. a^
kufus, mentioned
12, 1797 ; Mary .\i
Warren, liorn aboui I7(<iy.
lyf*)-. Anna, .Xugiist 7, 177,-
3. 1779: Petsey, October 2';. i/.-o; M.ir.M,
.August 24. 1788: Henry I'tley, December 6.
179'! : William.
( \T I Rufus. son of Jared Nlunson, was
born about 1763, died SeptemH<>r 13. 1797.
lie was a fanner, liveil in .M \er-
mont, and is said to have ov the
best farms in his viciiii!> ' lost
northerly place in M.r was
the Munson homestead the
widow and children of i i.iry
record: "Pay roll Capt ' Co.
in Col. Ira .\llen Regt. >i rv-
ice done this State in the ;il.r nih
of March." I'ifty-scven men :; ., .;iifus
were paid for from one to seven days. He
serverl in Captain Tliomas Parney's com|)any.
Colonel Ira .Mien, "on alarm to the North-
wanl which commenced 11 Oct.. 1780;" fifty-
eight men served from five fo •' •• • '
He was on the pay roll of P.:i
.-Mien's regiment, in May, 17S.
to the Westward after Tories to rciakc Licuts.
Planchard and Hinc;" thirty-'Mie men 'erved
from two to four days. He 11 " d)ly
1790. Pethiah. daughter of mi:
she was l>orn in New Milfori!, '■ ;!, in
1772, died December 3, 1843. as widow Puck,
of Lancsboro, Massachusetts. Children :
Cyrus, lx)ni January 22. 1 791 : Jesse, men-
tioned below: Pcnjamin. November 19, 1794:
Polly. December 31, 179^'.
(VII) Jes.se, son of Rufus Munson, was
iK^rn .\ngust 21. 1792, in Manchester. Ver-
mont, lie died October 24, 1879. He was a
shoemaker, tanner, farmer, geneml mrrehant,
and carried on a lumber busii is a
Democrat in politics. In reb .in
Episcopalian. He lived in ■•,.... ,. in
Pradl'ord, New York ( 1838-71) : and in W'ill-
iamsi>">rt, Pennsylvania, .\fter the dcatli of
his father. Jesse, as yet a child, lived with
his uncle, John Burton, at St. .Mhans. M
the age of thirteen, he began to live with his
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uncle, Curtis Burton, at Greenfield, whose
business, tanning, shoemaking and farming,
he subsequently purchased. One of his early
successes consisted in opening a temporary
store for the sale of boots and shoes in Can-
ada, and during the war of 1812 large quan-
tities were disposed of to the soldiers. He
added to his other business the sale of dry
goods, and also lumbering in the adjacent
county of Essex. For twenty-six years he
conducted his various branches of business to
a financial success. His energy knew no
bounds. He would often drive to the Hud-
son, twenty miles, so early in the morning
that he would be obliged to waken some of
the inhabitants to learn whether he could
cross the river on the ice, which bent and
swayed under its burden. He moved with his
family to Bradford, where there were better
opportunities for lumbering. There, with his
son-in-law, H. Merriman, he purchased saw
and grist mills, and timber and farming lands.
Later, merchandising was added to the busi-
ness of the family, and later still there were
purchases of vast tracts of coal and pine and
other timber lands in Potter and Clinton coun-
ties, Pennsylvania. Jesse Munson and his
family founded and sustained the Bradford
Academy for many years. He contributed
largely to the erection of the Episcopal Church
(St. Andrews) and to its maintenance, while
others did not fail to receive from his liberal
hand. As supervisor, during the war of the
rebellion, the quota of soldiers for Bradford,
owing to his activity, was filled earlier than
that of any other in Steuben county ; he gave
from his own funds from ten to twenty-five
dollars for each man. He exerted himself
vigorously in behalf of temperance. When
some workmen brought a decanter into his
field, he smashed it against a tree. The in-
cident created great excitement, and figured
in the temperance lectures of that period.
Throughout his career it was said of him that
he "was remarkable for his originality, activ-
ity, and integrity."
He married, 1813, Sophia Talmadge, born
October 13, 1791, in Canaan, Connecticut, died
May 10, 187 1, daughter of Jonathan Tal-
madge, of Greenfield, and a great-great-
granddaughter of Lieutenant Enos Talmadge,
of New Haven, who had command of fort
at Schenectady when sacked by French and
Indians in 1689. He was killed and his body
burned. After the death of his wife. Mr.
Munson resided with his son Edgar in Will-
iamsport, Pennsylvania. Children : Rufus,
born November 15. 1813; Cyrus, July 13,
1815: Adeliza, May 19, 1817: Edgar, April
21, 1820; Augusta, July 17, 1833, married
George Redfield Curtis, of Meriden ( see Cur-
tis vni).
(\TII) Sheldon Pixlee Curtis,
CURTIS son of Daniel Curtis ( q. v.),
was born in Stratford, Connecti-
cut, May 26, 1812. He was a cabinetmaker
in Stratford, Connecticut, where he died Jan-
uary 9, 1875. He was a Republican in pol-
itics, and held the office of selectman. He
attended the Congregational church. He mar-
ried, September 23, 1835, Sarah, daughter of
Joel and Tryphena (Gorham) McEwen, of
Stratford. Children, born in Stratford: i.
Robert William, born July 30, 1836, men-
tioned below. 2. Alfred Henry, merchant in
New York City ; married Miss IBrooks. of Mil-
ford. 3. Charles Birdsey. 4. Frederick, de-
ceased : married Julia Hovey ; was a merchant,
partner of his brother Alfred H.
(IX) Robert William, son of Sheldon Pix-
lee Curtis, was born in Stratford, July 30,
1836. He attended the public schools and the
Stratford Academy. He served an apprentice-
ship of three years in the old machine shop at
Bridgeport, known as the Crescent Foundry
and Machine Company, and for twenty-five
years was employed as toolmaker in the fac-
tory of the VVheeler & Wilson Sewing Ma-
chine Company, Bridgeport. During that
period he resided for eleven years in Bridge-
port, but returned to Stratford and has lived
there during his later years. He is now re-
tired from active business. He has an at-
tractive home and five acres of land. He has
always taken a keen interest in public affairs
and he has been a leader of the Republican
party in this section. He served five terms
as selectman of the town of Stratford, 1889-
90-95-96-97: in 1891 he was assessor of the
town. He is a member of the local grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, and was treasurer
from its organization, serving for thirteen
years. He married, in 1861, Mary Elizabeth,
born in Stratford, daughter of Henry and
Cynthia (McEwen) Benjamin. They had
no children. She died January 19, 1908.
(IX) Charles Birdseye Curtis,
CLIRTIS son of Sheldon Pixlee Curtis (q.
v.), was born at Stratford, No-
vember 20, 1839. He was reared on his
father's farm, and educated in the public
schools and Stratford Academy. At the age
of eighteen he engaged in farming on his
own account on a place of twenty-five acres
near the village of Stratford and has con-
tinued to reside there to the present time,
although for some years he has not been en-
gaged in active business. He is one of the
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must substantial and prominent citizens of
his native town, an<l he anrl his family arc
active and popular socially. In politics he is
a stauiu-]i Democrat and has been honored
with nio^t of the offices within the gift of his
townsmen. He has serveil many terms as
selectman and for many years has t)een a
member of the school board, l-'or eight years
he was deputy sheritT under Robert L. Clark-
son. an<l in 1876 represented Stratforrl two
terms in the general asseml)ly of the state,
lie and his family attend Clirist h'piscopal
Church and Mr. Curtis was vestryman for
many years, lie is a kindly, charitable and
highly esteemetl neighlior. an earnest, active
and useful citizen, and his domestic life is
I)artici!larly lia])iiy. lie was a member of the
Stove Club and with his wife was a charter
member of tlie Ilousatonic Club.
lie married. October 18. iS-h, Sarah
Martha Strong, lK>rn July 11, 1855. daughter
of Charles I'ond and Clarissa L. ( ChatficUl )
Strong I sec Strong \'II). They have but
one child, Pauline ."-Strong, born June Ji. 1880;
married, ( )ctober 4. 1905. Harry .\uguslus
Piurnes. Iiorn in r.ridge])ort, a contractor and
builder, largely engaged in building ice-
houses. Mr. and .Mrs. Humes are prominent
socially and their hcjmc is very attractive.
(The Strong Line).
I II I Thomas Strong, son of John Strong,
was born about 1650-40 at Windsor, Con-
necticut, probably, and liied ( )ctober _v 1^189.
He was a troo])ci in 1638 at Windsor under
Majtir Mason. He removed in 1(150 to North-
ampton. Massachusetts, with the Connecticut
colonists. He married (fust) neceniber 5,
i6()o. .Mary, daughter of Rev. ICjihraim llew-
ett. of \\ indsor. She dietl h'ebruary 20, 1670-
71. He married (second) October 10, 1 671,
Rachel, daughter of Deacon William Holton.
of Noriliampton. She married (sccmidl May
\f>. i(K)S, Nathan I'radley. of Fast Cuilfonl.
now Mailison. Connecticut. Deacon Holton
was one of the first settlers of Hartford and
of Northampton, where he was one of the
first board of magistrates. He was deputy
to the general court in f(V\y-fiO- Children of
first wife: Thomas, born Novcmiwr 16. if/ii :
Maria, .\ugust 31. I'Vt^: John. March 0. i'V)4-
65: Hcwett. December 2, KWi; .\sahel. Chil-
flren of second wife: Joseph, Decemlier 2,
lft~2: Penjamin. 1674: .\dina. January 25,
ifi-f): Waitstill. i()77-78: Rachel. July 13.
i67<): Selah. Decemler 2. i(t^: Penajah.
September 24, i'k*^2: b^jhraim. mentioned be-
low: F.lnathan, .August -o ](>"■<(>■. Ruth. I'cb-
ruary 4. ifi88: Submit, b'ebruary 23. i6go
(postlnimous).
(HI) Kphraini, son of Thomas Snon- « 1^
l>orn at Northampton, January ;
went to Milford in ijo^-oty He
smith and farmer and a 1
He married. May 10. 171.'
mgb.,
nah '
daughter oi Lieutenant Wtlliani i
Children : I-'phraim, mcntione<l below ,
Ixirn January 26, 1715.
(1\ I Hon. Fpbraim (2), son of Ephraim
(T) Strong, was I..' n \i ,r.i, r,, .-111, 11..
graduated at \
'prominent in c ■
as representative 111 the ;;>
the ppivince. He followed
cation. He died '" -
in 174(1. Mary.
(Clark) I'rutidi
Prudden. first nunistcr 01
for his piety, gravity and I
the growing evils of t'
gidar faculty to swee;
exasperated spirits." > .,,,,,,,, -,..>,. .^<.i
January 13, 1747: Mary, .\ugust 6, 1749;
Eunice. July 24, 1732; Ephraim. mcntioneil
below: .\nn, September 25. 1757: John Prml-
den, .August 12, 17^)3 ; John, July 3. it''''
(V) Ephraim (.5). son i>f Hon. F.p
(2) Strong, was iKirn at Northampton. I
1734, died .September, i8}_5. He was a 1,1;;...
lie married Hannah Piatt, Ixirn 1738. died
October 12, 18 12. daughter of Deacon Joseph
Piatt, "if Milford. Children. l)orn at Mil-
ford: William, January 16, 17R1. mentioned
lielow: Sarah, married .\rlam Pond: Ennice.
Imrn June 2, 1787.
( \ I I Hon. William, son of Fi'bj.iiin i i<
Strong, was born at Milfor«l.
January 16, 1781. His family
the pn^minenl families of Milford. Ik ..
successful merchant of Milforil. Conne. ti. it.
prominent in public atTairs and reprc ■ '
the town in the general assembly. !!■
judge of probate many years. He ni.i
in 1800. Mary Hubbard. l>irn June 13, 177'/.
flie>l April 3, 184 1. daughter of ("b,irlcs Pond
Chililrcn. born at Milfor.I
September 4. 1801 : Mary
180.5: Charles Pond (twin). ;
Martha Miles (twin). .March 24.
married: Hannah Piatt. June 13.
married ; Catharine Pond, ScplcmlKr 17. i.Si 1,
never marrie<l : Sarah, July tj. 1813: William,
July 9. 1813: Charloitc. August 12. 1817;
i ieofije. I'ebruary 12. i8ir;; John Carrington.
September 5. 1821. never niarrie<l.
(\in Charles Pond, son of Hon. W
Stronvr. was Uirn at Milft^rd. ^farch 24
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died March 21, 1870. He was educated in
the public schools of his native town. He
was in the grain business in New York and
at Loganspo'rt, Indiana, and in the latter city
owned and operated a large flour mill. He
married (first) Caroline, daughter of Samuel
Merwin, of Milford. He married (second)
Clarissa Lewis Chatfield, born at Stratford,
died at Bridgeport. Children of first wife:
Charles, died aged four years ; Charles Will-
iam, ]March 12, 1833; Caroline ]\Ierwin, March
II, 1844. Children of second wife: Clarissa,
died young; John Lewis, born March 20,
1845: Edward Henry, February i, 1847;
Clarissa Chatfield, April 8, 1850: Sarah
Martha, July 11, 1855, married Charles Birds-
eye Curtis (see Curtis IX) ; Anna Pond, Feb-
ruary 27, 1857, married George Benham
Thompson.
■ Ralph Hemingway, the
HEMINGWAY immigrant ancestor, was
born in England and set-
tled early at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He
was a member of the Roxbury church as early
as 1633, and was admitted a freeman, Sep-
tember 3, 1634. He was a proprietor of the
town. He died June i, 1678. His will was
dated May 4, 1677, and proved July 11, 1678,
bequeathing to wife Elizabeth, and children
John, Samuel, Joseway, and Elizabeth Hol-
brook.
He married, July 5, 1634, Elizabeth Hol-
brook, who died February 4, 1684, aged
eighty-two years. Children, born at Roxbury :
Marah, born and died in 1635 ; Samuel, June,
1636, mentioned below: Ruth, September 21,
1638; John, April 27, 1641 : Joshua, April 9,
1643 : "Mary, April 7, 1644: ;\Iary, April 7,
1647.
(II) Samuel, son of Ralph Hemingway,
was born in Roxbury, in June, 1636. The
name is also spelled by various branches of
the family Hemingway, Hemmingway, Hem-
enwav and Hemmenway. Fie settled in New
Haven, Connecticut, and later at East Haven,
1660, where many of his descendants have
lived. He was a man of considerable educa-
tion and refinement. The town records which
he kept as clerk for a long time show his
admirable handwriting. He married, in 1662,
Sarah, daughter of John Cooper, a magis-
trate and early settler. Children : Sarah, born
July 26, 1663; Samuel, December 13, 1665;
Mary, July 5, 1668; Hannah, September 14,
1670: Abigail. February 16, 1672: John, May
29, 1675 : Abraham, December 3, 1677, men-
tioned below: Isaac (twin), December 6,
1683: Jacob (twin), December 6, 1683, first
student in Yale College, B. A., 1704, and
pastor of the church in East Haven for fifty
years.
(HI) Abraham, son of Samuel Heming-
way, was born at East Haven, December 3,
1677. He married, November 11, 1713. Sarah
Talmadge, his second wife. Child of the first
wife: Sarah, married Enos Potter. Children
of the second wife: Abraham, born January,
1715, died young; Ehzabeth, October 3, 1716;
Abigail, March 17, 1719; Isaac, February 17,
1721 : Anna, February, 1723; Hannah, Octo-
ber 22, 1724: Abraham, April i, 1727, men-
tioned below.
(I\') Deacon Abraham (2) Hemingway,
son of Abraham ( i ) Hemingway, was born,
at East Haven, April i, 1727. He married
there, April 24, 1746, Mercy, born April 17,
1730, died January 12, 1812, daughter of
Joseph and Mercy (Thompson) Tuttle, grand-
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Sanford)
Tutde and of John and Mercy (Mansfield)
Thompson: great granddaughter of Joseph
and Hannah (Munson) Tuttle, Thomas and
Elizabeth (Paine) Sanford and of John and
Priscilla (Powell) Thompson. Children, born
at East Haven: Isaac, February, 1747; Sarah,
February 17, 1749; Abraham, April 10, 1751 ;
Abigail, i\Iay 17, 1753; Enos, September 17,
1755, mentioned below; Mercy, July 5, 1757;
Elizabeth, May i, 1760; Isaac, May 3, 1762;
Jacob, 1764.
(\') Enos, son of Abraham (2) Heming-
way, was born, at East Haven, September 17,
1755, and died in 1845. He was a represen-
tative to the general assembly from 1797 to
1809, twenty-one sessions, the longest record
'in the history of the town. He was a soldier
in the revolution, in the Sixth company, Cap-
tain William Douglas, in 1775, in the northern
department, under Colonel David Wooster of
New Haven. In 1832 he appears on the list
of government pensioners and again in 1840,
when he was living at East Haven and his
age then was stated as eighty-five. Accord-
ing to the census of 1790, he was of East
Haven and had two sons under sixteen and
four females in his family and owned one
slave.
Fle married, April 23, 1777, Sarah, born
May 18, 1758, daughter of Samuel and
Mehitable (Denison) Hemingway. Her
father was born March 12, 1713, died October
25, 1779, son of John and Mary (Morris)
Hemingway. John was born May 29, 1675,
son of Samuel and Sarah (Cooper) Heming-
way (see Hemingway II). Children, recorded
at East Haven: Samuel, born April 25, 1778;
Sarah, September 17. 1780: Betsey, October
25, 1782: Nancy. May 7, 1785; Anson, Octo-
ber 10, 1787; Willett (twin), January 29,
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•79
1791: \\ vllis (twin), January 30, 1791, men-
tioned lichjw.
( \ 1 1 Wyllis, son of F.nos Jlcminpway. was
Ijorii. at East Haven, January 30, 1791. He
married, \ovenil)er i^, iHcfj, Mary Mrown,
liorn December 21. 178S, daui^hter I)f Daniel
ami llannali t En^lisli ) lirown. Daniel
IJrciwn was liorn in 1743. died 1788, son of
Eleazer and Sarah (Rowe) Hrown. Eleazcr,
horn i6(/», died i7'»8, was son of (icrshoni
Ilruwii anil grandson of Eleazer and Sarah
( r.ulkeley ) lirown, .i,'rcat-Kraiidson of Francis
and Mary (Edwards) Itrown and of John
Unlkeley. Sarah Rowe was horn in 1700,
dauiihter of John and .\hi;,'ail ( Alsop ) Rowe,
and t;rand(laui,diter of Matthew Rowe. Han-
nah English, horn 1749, was daui^hter of IJen-
jaiiiin and Sarah (Dayton) Eufjlish, jjrand-
datii,dUer of r.enjamin and Reiiecca ( lirown)
Eni,dish. llenjaniin l-inj^lish was Iwrn in ii>jf>,
died 17^5. >on of Clement anl Mary
(Waters) Eni^lish and grandson of Richard
Waters. Sarah Dayton ( En.t,dish ) was Ixirn
17K1. died I7(K>. daui;hter of Isaac and Eliza-
heth (Todd) Da\ ton, ,t;randdau<,diter of Isaac
ami Rehccca (Tuttle) Dayton and of Michael
and Elizaheth (lirown) Tinld : threat s^rand-
daujjhter of Samuel Dayton or Deighton and
of Jonathan and Rehecca (Hall) Tuttle. Will-
iam Tuttle was father of Jonathan. Chihlren
of Wyllis and Mary (Itrown) IlennnRway:
Sanuiel, mentioned hclow ; Jane: .\nson.
(\J1| Sanuiel (2), m.u of Wylli> Heming-
way, was horn .March 14. iSii, and died Dc-
cemher 31, 1881. He lived at l-air Haven,
was in the mercantile husiness until 18/17,
when he hecame iiresidcnt of the Second Na-
tional liank of New Haven, and held that of-
fice until his death. In relij^don he was a (."on-
gregationali>t, in |)olitics a Repiddican, and he
was a cljrector in many concerns. He married
(first) Mary Ilrown. Children: Charles W. ;
George S. : Jane Clarinda. He married (sec-
ond) Marietta Smith, daui^hter of Daniel
Smith of East Haven. ChiMren : Samuel,
mentioned helow, and James Smith, mentioned
lielow.
(\TII) Samuel (3), son of Sannicl {2)
Hemingway, was born at New Haven. No-
vember 2, 1858. He was educate<l in the
public schtxils of his native city, graduating
from the New Haven high scluml. class of
i€^78. He is one of the most prominent finan-
ciers and hankers of New Haven, having been
president of the Second National Dank of
New Haven since January, i!^</). He is a di-
rector of the New Haven Water Company:
the lloston & Maine Railroad: the .Maine
Central Railroail (."omjiany ; and trustee of the
New Haven Savings liank. He is a memlier
of the ('■••■■ ' . >
Count 1
Hisloi)
publican, 111 reitg:
a member of i;
Church. His home 1- ai 3J7 Kiuijlt direct,
.New Haven.
He married, ( )ctobcr 1" ■'^'-'' ^' '
Hart. Inirii .Nnvemlx-r <i
daughter of Ri-y. Hu:
Haven. Children, Ijorn in .\«.w Huvi-ti; 1.
.Samuel I'., .ScpieniUT R, iKK^; ,Ttt.«nd<'d the
New Haven '
Watertow ti, '
Vale Collcgi
now an instructor in ^ .
Lee. born .April 25. !•'■''-
kins (irammar Scl
College (li. .\., I
.National Hank oi u ji;
dent. 3. Donald Hart,
educated in Hopkins <
dent at Phillips Acadei
chusetts.
( \III ) James Smith. ■ n
Hemingway, was born, in N
ruary 4, 1861. ll<- ■"• ■■ '■ ^
there. He is a 1
and trustee of thi
at 170 Orange street. 11*. i> a diicxi..i t.i
the New York, New Haven X- Hartforil Rail-
road Company : of the \ ' • • ■
tion Company : of the >
of New Haven; New Il.i
pany : the -Security Insurance ' lus-
tee of the I'nion New Ha\ ni-
pany. He is a member of ■
Club, the New Haven t"ornir\
Club, and tli. '^ " <
."^I'cietx. Ill in
religion at' 1 the
Center Church, .\ew Haven.
He married, NovemK-r 2j. »8ot. I.onise
Watson ludington, of ! !.ind,
born there, January .• ; of
Jesse C". and Nancy il :on,
l)oth of t'onnecticut, but rc^ my
years of I'altiniore. Mr. Hen ■ ^mc
is at 325 Temple street. New Haven. Chil-
dren: Harolil l.udingti n. l.orn Mav za. 1893.
graduate of the llo|kiii '1 of
.\ew Haven, ami now Hips
.\cademy, .\n lover. Ma.— - . ^arct
Louise, March 30, 189b: James .smith, Jr.,
July 9. 1899.
Robert Potter, immigrant an-
POTTER cestor. came from Coventry.
England, in i''34. and was
made a freeman of the Massachusetts Hav
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colony, September 3, 1634. He is spoken of
first as a farmer at Lynn, Massachusetts, and
then he moved probably to Roxbury, and
soon after was made a freeman. His first
trouble with the church at Roxbury finally
resulted in his being compelled to leave the
colony, and he then settled at Portsmouth,
Rhode Island. At this time he had become
a follower and friend of Samuel Gorton, the
great religious disturber, and they and their
associates purchased a tract of land called
Shawomett Purchase, Rhode Island, which
was afterwards named by them Warwick in
honor of the Earl of Warwick who had be-
friended them during their troubles with the
Colony of Massachusetts. "Samuel Gorton,
the great religious disturber, came from Gro-
ton, England, where his family had loeen many
generations. He was born about 1600, came
to America before 1638, Plymouth, Massachu-
setts, thence to Rhode Island, and was ad-
mitted an inhabitant June 27, 1638."
In 1638 Robert Potter was also admitted
an iqhabitant of the island of Aquidneck,
Rhode Island, and April 30, 1639. he. with
twenty-eight others, signed the following com-
pact r "We whose names are underwritten
do acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of
his Majesty King Charles, and in his name
do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body
politicke, unto his laws according to matters
of justice." In his belief he agreed with the
Quakers in the rejection of church ordinances
and a few other points, but he differed with
them in points which were considered the
most essential. It seems from the records
that he and his associates did not get on well
in Portsmouth, and the following is from the
records of the Colony of Rhode Island, March
16, 1642: "It is ordered that Robert Potter,
Richard Garden, Randall Houlden, and Samp-
son Shotton be disfranchised of the privileges
and prerogatives belonging to the body of this
State, and their names cancelled from the
records." The next day the colony ordered
that these same men should not come upon the
island armed, and if they did so, they were
to be taken before the magistrate. In 1642
he sold his house and land at Portsmouth to
his brother-in-law, John Anthony. On Janu-
ary 12. 1642, Samuel Gorton. Robert Potter
and others of Warwick, were deeded land by
the Narragansett Indians. In 1643 '^^ ^nd
others were summoned to appear at the gen-
eral court at Boston to hear complaint of
Pomham and Socconocco because of some "in-
jurious dealing toward them by yourselves."
They refused to obey the summons, declaring
that they were legal sulDJects of the King of
England and beyond the limits of Massa-
chusetts colony. Captain Cook and a com-
pany of soldiers were sent to get 'them, and
they besieged the house in which they were
sheltered and finally captured them, and all
except Shotton were taken to Boston for trial
and condemned to confinement in several dif-
ferent towns. Their wives and children were
forced to live in the woods and suffered hard-
ships that resulted in the death of at least
three women, one of whom was Robert Pot-
ter's wife. He was taken to Rowley and set
to work under guard, and threatened with
death if he attempted to talk of the heresies
he believed in. Hebard Gorton and some of
his associates then went to England and
presented to the commissioners of foreign
plantations, appointed by parliament, a mem-
orial against the Colony of Massachusetts for
their violent and unjust expulsion of them-
selves from the Colony. In 1646 an order re-
inforced them in their possession of Shaw-
omet (Warwick), forbidding the Massachu-
setts Colony to interfere with them.
In 1643 Robert Potter was arretted and
tried in Boston and was also excommunicated
from his church. The date of his coming to
England first is not known, except that he
was a passenger with the Rev. Nathaniel
^^''ard who was afterwards minister at Ips-
wich and is supposed to have sailed from
England in April, 1634. In 1649 Robert Pot-
ter was licensed to keep an inn. In 1651 he
was commissioner, and on May 25. 1655, he
was again appointed by the court of commis-
sioners to keep a tavern. The inventory of
his estate, forty-two pounds, was taken !May
14. 1656, and on June 11. 1636. the town
council found that it was necessary to sell
some of his land to discharge debts. On
March 16, 1686. his will was made, and it
was proved May 4, 1686. His wife was
Sarah, who married (second) John Sanford,
of Boston, and the executors were William
and John Mason Jr. He bequeathed to
daughters of his brother. Robert Sanford,
sister Mary Turner, to the children of John
Potter. Elizabeth Potter, and Deliverance
Potter, and to executors. Robert Potter mar-
ried (first) Isabel, who died in 1643, and he
married (second) Sarah, who died in 1686.
Children, by first wife : Elizabeth, born in
Roxbury. jNIassachusetts : Deliverance, born in
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1637; Isabel, born
in Portsmouth: John, mentioned l)elow.
(II) John, son of Robert Potter, was born
in Portsmouth in 1639. He was made a
freeman in 1660. He married (first) Ruth
Fisher, and married (second) 1684. widow
Sarah Collins. He was married by Mayor
John Greene who was afterwards deputy gov-
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cnior. lie was (lci)iit\- in iG>j-ji-/j-i^o-i^T^,
ami on An^ust J4, \<>/(t, lie was a ineiiil)cr
of the court martial held at NewiX)rt for the
trial of certain Indians cliars^ed with lieinj;
cn<^ajie<l in Kinif I'hilip's dcsij^ns. ( )n May
7, if)79, he was (^ranteil. by iietition. thirty-
six sliillin^^s due him lor service --ome sears
before, when he was consiahle, in securing;
anrl sendinij Indians to .\ew|)ort. In if)S5-Sf)
he was assistant. On October to. KtSj. he
deeded to his eldest son Robert, two hundred
acres for love, and on A|)ril 2S. iCiSS. he and
his son Robert sold John Anthony, of Ports-
mouth, buildini^s. orchard, and twenty-eight
acres in I'ort>m(>nth, for .sixty jiounds. On
October 6. kV^jj, he deeded to sons Fisher
and John, one hundred acres each, and h'cb-
ruary 14, i^iQ.^ he deeded to his son .Samuel
cisjlUy acre>. He died intestate, and on April
10, if)04. his son Robert disposed of the es-
tate, to the two youni^est brothers, Kdward
and Content. Chib'ren. born in Warwick:
Robert. .March 5. iCiOj ; Fisher, July 12. it)«\~:
John, November 21. Kjtf). mentioned below:
William, Nfay 23, ir>7i : Samuel, January 10,
i()72: Isabella. October 17, 1(174: Ruth, No-
vember 20. iCi/fi: Edward. .November 25,
1678: Content. October 2. ih8o.
(Ill) John (2), son of John (i) Potter,
was born at Warwick, November 21. if/ic).
He marrieil Jane, daughter of Roger and
Mary I'.urlinj^hame. He was killed Eehruary
3, 171 1, by the fallinir of a tree, and his
widow married (second) December 27. the
same year, his brother I'dward. an<l these two
brothers both had a son John who grew up
to maturity, and both by the same mother,
Jane. Children, liorn in Cranston, Rhode
Island: John, born before ifioj: Fisher. Sep-
tember 20. i7of>: Mary: William, mentioned
below: Amy: .Mice. John.
(I\"l William, soil of John (2) Potter,
was born in Cranston, Rhode Island. He
marrietl. I'ebruary to, 17-0, Martha TilliuR-
hast. l^'hildren : .\lniy. horn .\pr\\ 17. 1721:
Ruth. November 24. 1722: Cajitain William,
September 24. 1724; Marth.i. I'eliruary 2j.
1727: Sarah, .\\ni\ 15, 1721): ( )liver, men-
tioned below : Keziah, horn in I'ranston.
(\') Oliver, son of William I'otter, was
born in Cranston, Rhode Island. He mar-
ried. October 17. 1757. Mary Colvin. Chil-
dren, born in Coventry. Rhode Island : Col-
onel .\ndrew. October 18. 1757. mentioned
below: Robe, .\pril 11. 1750: Noel. June 4.
I7('>i : Sarah. December 2f^. 17(1.^: Freelx>rn.
December 11, 170;: Huldali. januarv 16,
1708.
( \'I ) Colonel .\ndrew Potter, son of Oliver
Potter, was born in ("oveutr\, Rhode Islau '.
< Ict'iber 18, 1757. uH.i .\i;ii,n .1. iRi'j. He
married .Nancy Remington, who dieil ni 1827.
(.hildren: .\manda. married ( )rrm lairman:
Edmund, Iwirn 1791: Nicholas (',., SepicmlH-r
I, 1792. mentioned below; Rev. Ray. Ix>rn in
Cranston. June 22. 1795: Caroline, married
Elislia OIney; Samuel, married I'emperance
.Stone: .Nancv R.. iMtrii ' ' '■' i
(\ II I Nicholas C... Ircw
Potter, was l)orn in W ' .-r i,
170^. died in 1846. He nianicd (lirst) Jan-
uary 8, 1815, .\nna I'., Ix.rn in I7<;<>. die I
1834, dan-^luer of Dr. Ilardini.; Harris. He
marrieil (second) .\pril 2<>, 1844. (. harlotle.
dauj,'hter of Caleb .\twood. Childr- •■ 1 •■■ •
wife: Ilardinj; Harris, Jiorn in I
Rhode Island, ( Vtober It. 1815: i
horn in Johnson, Rhoilc Island, March <>,
1819 (the remainder of the ehildrfn were
born in Johnson I : Henry T.. ' ' |8_»|.
mentione 1 below: .Ann l-"rai: 13,
182.V. Phebe .Sophia. March .... died
.Se))tembcr 24. 1827: William 1... .\|iril 2,V
(830: lohn, lulv 28, 1834, die<l Otoher 14,
1834: 'Phebe' 11.. December 27, 1838. died
\omii,'.
(\'lll) Henry T.. son of Rev. V ' ' '
Potter, was born at Johnson. Rb
October i. 1821. He (^'raduated
Smithfield Seminary at North .Seitnaie.
Rhode Island. He was gifted with mechanical
ability of a high onler and when a young
man engaged in the manufacture rif cotton
machinery of all kinds in Rhode Islaii I.
.Afterwards be came to making ihe coiiNiruc-
tion of mills, dams ami machinery and the
laying out oi mill villages a s|HTialty. His
undertakings were, at the time, the largest of
the kind in this country. He devb:
himself an engineer, though he lo< •'
in the engineering (irofession. lb
to designate himself as a builder
signer of engineering works. H<
man in a machine shop at the age
In 1852 he built the .Arctic mill at
Warwick. Rhode Island. He weni i • 1
when the jdace was a comparative wildcriic --
laid out a villaje. made the necessary plm-
and superintended the construction of the
big dam and mills there. In i8r>3 he came
to Norwich. Connecticut. In 18^14 he built
a canal and dam for the Occum Company.
He built for Edward P. Taft the village of
Taftville. laying out the streets. erectinR the
houses and planning the dam and canal. The
cornerstone of the big mill was laid .April
17. i86fS. hut when the work reached the sec-
ond story, financial disi own-
ers an I coiivtnution Mr.
■ '■"..,• xvas engaged i" ' ii'-r
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Company of Birmingham to build a dam
across the Housatonic river. This vast work
inckiding the locks and canal was completed
October 5, 1870, and the event celebrated
with music, a parade and formal addresses.
In the history of Derby fifteen, pages are
devoted to the enterprise. Of ^Ir. Potter
the history says: "The engineer, Mr. H. T.
Potter, received most hearty commendation
and praise. He was a man of no specious
pretense, yet very able; patient as most men,
often more so ; seeing at a glance what he
could do, and always did what he promised ;
many times under censure, and yet he went on
his way steadily, pushing to the end, beat-
ing back one and another difficulty, until
finally the work under his hands grew to final
completion, a monument to his engineering
skill."
The dam on the Shetauket river built by
him has a drainage area of four hundred and
fifty-nine square miles and is twenty-five feet
high. Another dam the same height on the
same river has a drainage area of four hun-
dred and seventy-seven miles, and a third fif-
teen feet high has an area of five hundred and
twenty-six miles. The dam on the Housatonic
has a drainage area of one thousand five hun-
dred and sixty miles and is twenty-four feet
high. All these dams were built on a rather
poor gravel foundation and much was learned
by the builders in the course of construction.
He was appointed in 1878 to the state board
of civil engineers for the supervision of dams
and reservoirs and continued in that office
until he resigned on account of ill health in
1897, a few months before he died.
The first dam approved by him was that at
Greeneville to take the place of the structure
built in 1830 by the Norwich Water Power
Company. The new dam was built in 1881-
82 and develops the largest power in eastern
Connecticut. The second was a dam on the
Quinebaug river in the town of Thompson at
the village of Reedsville. This dam has a
timber rollway and a long earthen embank-
ment over which a highway passes. The third
was a dam in Woodstock, built without state
supervision in an improper manner and
strengthened by the addition of ten feet in the
width of the base, as recommended by j\Ir.
Potter. The fourth was the new Slater dam
at Jewett City, built to take the place of the
one carried away in the freshet of 1886. It
is of stone masonry with granite face, founded
on a large led^e and said to be the finest
structure of its kind in the third congressional
district. He approved another dam at Jewett
City above the Slater dam, to take the place
of one that was destroyed in 18S6. and a sixth
at the Pachaug reservoir to take the place of
a wooden dam that has become rotten. The
seventh dam was a timber dam at Moosup, the
eighth for water power for Lebanon, and the
ninth for the Pomonah water supply. Dur-
ing his later years he was a consulting engi-
neer and expert in mill construction. His
advice was often sought, and great confidence
was reposed in his judgment.
In 1862 he represented the town in the
general assembly of the state. He was elected
an honorary member of the Connecticut Asso-
ciation of Civil Engineers and Surveyors,
June 7, 1887. Mr. Potter was well informed
in many fields of thought and was a gifted
public speaker. His integrity was never ques-
tioned. He detested shams of all kinds. His
home was his chief delight in life and there
his best personal qualities were revealed. He
was kindly, considerate and charitable in deal-
ing with men and was highly esteemed bv his
neighbors and friends. He died September
20, 1897. He was buried in the Yantic cem-
etery. He purchased a home on Washington
street, Norwich, and lived there the remainder
of his life.
He married. November 16, 1S48, Sarah Ba-
ker, who died January 26, 1903, daughter of
Dr. Daniel Baker, of Fiskville. Children : i.
Daniel Baker, died August 16, 1901 : unmar-
ried : was a jeweler in Norwich. 2. \\'alter
Harris, married Julia Lathrop, of Norwich ;
child, Ruth Potter. 3. Jennie, resides in the
old home on Washington street. 4. Harry,
died January 17, 1893: was clerk in the Dime
Savings Bank of Norwich.
George Potter, immigrant an-
POTTER cestor. was born in England,
and came as early as 1638 to
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and was admitted
as an inhabitant of what was then called the
island of Aquidneck. He and twenty-eight
other settlers signed the compact regarding
their government, April 30, 1639. His widow
married Nicholas Niles. He had a son .\bel,
mentioned below.
(II) .Abel, son of George Potter, was born
about 1640. died in 1692. When a youth he
was bound out as an apprentice for a term of
eighteen years to William Boylston or Baul-
ston. He bought a right in the town of Dart-
mouth, ;\Iay 3, 1667, and also owned land
in Providence, Rhode Island. He was admit-
ted a freeman. May i, 1677. His will was
proved March 9, 1692, his widow Rachel being
executrix. He married. November 16, 1669,
Rachel, daughter of John and Priscilla \\'ar-
ner. Children, born at Warwick, Rhode
Island: George, died ^lay 3, 1712: John,
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"»i
liorii i(>S<): .\l)fl, inciitiuncd liclcus ; licnjainin ;
Marv ; Ichabud ; Job.
(Ill) Abel (2), son of Abel (i) Totter,
\va> l)i>rii about litcjo, died January lo, 1727.
He married (first) January i. 171.?. Keliecca
raine: (second) April 30. 1719. Martha,
widiiw 111 John I'aiue. ChiM of first wife:
I'lCnjainin. inentinncd below.
(1\) -Major lienjaniin Potter, son of .\bel
(2) Potter, was iiorn October 18, 1713. He
settled at Lranston, Rhode Island, lie niar-
rieil, December 25, 1735. Jemima, dautjhter of
Josepli Williams Jr. Children, horn at Cran-
ston: Znriel, .\pril S. 1740: .Meshach. men-
tioned below: llonneyman. M. D. ; llolliman,
July .S, 175.=) : Susanna; Rebecca: Jemima.
(\') Meshach, son of Major Benjamin Pot-
ter, was born at Cranston. 1744. died Sejitem-
ber iS. i8iy. He married, .\pril 10. 1774. Tem-
perance, born 1750, ilied 1S2S, dauj^liter of
Josiah and Sarah P>urlini;ame. Chihlren. born
at (."ranston : Lydia. .May 29. 1775; Henry H.
Jamiary i.S. 1777: William .Vnson, mentioned
lielow : Thomas Rumeril. .March 6, 1781;
h'reelove, .May 10, 178^^; Hamiah, June 22,
1780: .Meshach, May 2y. 1788; married three
times; Abedneijo, Jimc 2S, 1790; Simon W'.,
September 17. 1792.
( \ I ) William .-\nson. son of Meshach Pot-
ter, was born I'ebruary 3, 1770. He married,
in 1S05, Sarah. <lani;htcr of John and Hope
(Harris) ( Parkluirst I Smith. Children, horn
at Warwick: Alfre<l W., July 10. 180*); Re-
becca W'.. January 13. 1808; Kliza Harris,
twin of Rebecca W'. : Maria Smith. N'ovem-
ber 28. i8(x>: William Pitt, mentioned below:
Job Harris. I'cbruary 28. 1817.
(\II) William Pitt, son of William .\nson
Potter, was born .\u^nst I'l. 181 1. died Feb-
ruary 14, 1887. He was sujierintendcnt for
many years of the Xorwich I'deachinij. Hyeinj;
and C'alenderinj; Company, now the I'niteil
States I'inishinij Company, and was at one
time treasurer of the corjx'ration. He lived
It .\orwich. He married. July 15. 18.^5.
>.irah n.. ilauyhter of Nicholas Hawkins.
I hililren : i. Cliarles H.. Iwrn at Warwick.
June I, 1836; married (fir.st) July 22. 1863.
.Marion Waters, horn 1837, ilic<l i8(h^. daui;h-
ter of Jeilcdiah Waters: marrieil (second)
May K). 1874. Ainia M.. daughter of David P.
' 'tis. J. \\illiam Pitt, mentioned below. 3.
I'rank H.. born at \i>rwich, November 17,
1 83^1; married. Anijust 24. 1881, Minnie K..
Ixirn 1852, danuditer of David P. and Julia
Ann Otis.
(\Tll) William Pitt (2), son of William
i'itt ( 1 ) potter, was born at Norwich. Mdy i.
1S50. He married. .\uj;ust 14. 1873. Ellen .\..
'lau,i;htcr of Georjie H. and Lucinda Waldo
I'itt
of
rcc
(Cheney) Ciriswold t .n.i.i,,,
(iriswold, of Win "
(iris wold came to \\
shire, when ab<jut Iwtiii) luiir
ried Trvphena. dnuuhter of
a I '• ■' ■ •■' ' •- ' ' -
ni
Al ■ ,
ter oi .Xbn.-! C lieney Jr..
Sr. .\bi>,'ail PahoH-k w >
than Habcock, of Wiii'
Ptjtter was eclucated in
Norwich and ■•' ■ '•• i- ■'
.\c.ndeniy. I .as
Iwokkeeper !• ' , >■-
injj and Calemlcrnin Compaij
Norwich, Anjjust 13, iik>i I!
Ikt of the (ireeinille ( ■
and was superintendent
for fourteen \e.ir-. Hi ....
Somerset Loilijc. l"ree and .\i
Royal .\rch Masons; Roynl :
tcrs : Cohnnhian Coinmai' ;i;.
plar. In politics he wa- ii|-
dren: i. Ernest < i- h,
Au),'ust (\ 1874. .; 2.
Charles Palmer, .A; , .11-
ist of the Second Con;;re};ati'
Norwich twelve years, of the '
i^aeijational Church six \ .m
or!.;ani-t in I'.oston; i;ra' ich
.\cademy and a pupil wi :,,, ,nd
Conservatory of Music; he the
(iale-Sawyer Conifiany of P.o- in
office supplies. He niarric«I. libiiiaij. 2",
1903, lilanche Louise SpauKling. of Norwich.
This family for centuries
H.X.MILTON has been one of the most
distinv^uisheil in .'scotlaml
and Englanil, anil closely relale<l to royalty in
both countries. Hcfore 131X) the family was
established in Scotland in Eanark-hire, Ren-
frewshire and .\yrshire. r- ' ' ' cr-
ous ever since, lite nan of
Norman ori.i;in. The fan
scsscs the titles to the diiki-i
ton ( antl of Chatelher.Tuli in
quisates of Clyile-'" I
(ionis of .\rnn. ll.i' e.
Orkney. Roth.- i-'
wall: lordshii
ninninp. lt>''
Patrick, Mach.in-lnn
IVilmoimt. Riccari.m
I'.elhaven ami Stenton
ily. whoso scat was in in
whom the .Xmerican i'; ^ icfl
below is .said to have spnini;. Uire these arms:
(lules, three cinipiefoils ernnne. with a h«ir-
'k-
■sil-
.\l.;:ii!v,(-iii. r.ii>ley,
baronies of I'artrenv,
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der counter point of the second and first.
Crest: A hand grasping a lance in bend
proper. Motto: "Et Anna et Virtus." Many
famihes of this name emigrated to Ireland
and settled in the counties of Tyrone, Antrim
and Londonderry.
(I) David Hamilton, the immigrant an-
cestor of this branch of the family, lived in
the township of Hamilton, near Glasgow,
Scotland. He was taken prisoner by Crom-
well at the battle of Worcester, September 3,
1 65 1, and with many others was sent to this
country by Cromwell as prisoner of war, and
sold into slavery. David Hamilton sailed on
the ship "John and Sarah," from Gravesend,
near London, November 8, 1652, arriving at
Charlestown, jMassachusetts, in the April fol-
lowing. He worked from five to ten years
for his liberty, and then went to Dover, New
Hampshire, and settled in what is now the
town of Rollinsford, on the west bank of the
Salmon Falls river, at a place called Newicha-
wannock, and which he bought in 1669. Here
he lived until he was killed by the Indians,
September 28, 1691. His name appears Feb-
ruary 20, 1689, on a petition for defense
against the enemy. He married at Saco,
Maine, July 14, 1662, Anna Jackson, daugh-
ter of Richard Jackson, who came to America
on the same ship and wdio was also a prisoner.
Children: Solomon, born August 10, 1666;
Jonathan, born December 20, 1672 ; Abel, born
1676; Jonas, born 1678; Gabriel, born 1679,
mentioned below ; David, died without issue ;
Abiel, born 1680: James, born 1682.
(II) Gabriel, son of David Hamilton, was
born in 1679, and lived in Berwick. ]\Iaine.
He owned much property in Berwick, and also
some in New London, Connecticut. He and
his wife Mary joined the church at Berwick,
September 6. 1713. His will was dated Sep-
tember 22, 1729, and proved April 6, 1730.
He married (first) about 1705, MaiT Hearl,
wh.o died before August 9, 1718, daughter of
William. Sr. and Elizabeth Head. He mar-
ried (second). May 24, 1721, Judith (Lord)
Meeds, born March 29, 1687, daughter of Na-
than and Martha (Toxer) Lord, of P.erwick,
and widow of P)enjamin Meeds. Children of
the first wife, the first five baptized September
6, 1713: (jabriel ; Mary, died young; Han-
nah : John : Patience ; Jonathan, baptized Au-
gust 4, 1715, mentioned below; Katherine,
baptized May 29, T718. Children of the sec-
ond wife: Mary, baptized August 27, 1724;
Martha, baptized same day : ^Iargaret, bap-
tized same day; Olive, ba]5tized May 6, 1731.
(Ill I Jonathan, son of Gabriel Hamilton,
was ba]itized in the first parish of Berwick,
Maine, .\ugnst 4, 1715. He removed about
1736 to New London, Connecticut, and mar-
ried there, July 26, 1735, Elizabeth Strick-
land. It is said that he had a second wife, and
that Phebe, who died July 26, 1786, was his
third wife. In 1760, with his wife, Phebe, he
removed to Horton, Nova Scotia. He was
the first high sheriflf of King's county. He
died February 24, 1778. Children of Jona-
than Hamilton : John ; James, born Febru-
ary 2, 1763, mentioned below; Jonathan, born
February 10, 1767; Sarah, born March 24,
1769, died young.
(R") James, son of Jonathan Hamilton,
was born February 2, 1763, and married, Feb-
ruary 10, 1796, Nancy Flarris. He died De-
cember 9, 1843. They had one child, James
E., mentioned below.
(\') James Edward, son of James Hamil-
ton, was born in Norwich. He married Anna
Maria Gesner, whose ancestors were of
Knickerbocker and French Huguenot stock,
Konrad Gessner, the Zurich scholar and phil-
osopher, was an ancestor. Her father was
Henry Gessner, a farmer and trader of New
York, who lived to the advanced age of nine-
ty-four years. She was a faithful member of
the Protestant Episcopal church. .She died
at the age of seventy-four years. James E.
Hamilton was a merchant in the West India
trade. He lived to the age of eighty-four
years. Children : J. Henry, professor in
Polytechnic Institute of Firooklyn, New York;
Charles Storrs ; James ; Nicholas L.
(\'J) Charles Storrs, son of James Ed-
ward Hamilton was born in New York City,
January 3, 1848. The family removed to
Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, and he went to school
there. A branch of this Hamilton family lo-
cated in Nova Scotia some generations before,
having grants of land for their service in the
capture of Louisburgh. He prepared for col-
lege under a private tutor and entered Kings
College at Windsor, Nova Scotia, the oldest
chartered college in the Dominion of Canada.
He was graduated with the degree of A. B.,
in the class of 1873, and then came to Boston,
where he began the study of law in the office
of Hon. Samuel Clark, a congressman from
that city. After two years of study he en-
tered the Yale Law School and was gradu-
ated with the degree of LL. B. in 1875, after
eighteen months. He had previously studied
medicine to some extent in the office of his
uncle and while at New Haven he took some
courses in the Yale Medical School, and he
has made a specialty of law cases requiring
some knowledge of medicine and surgery, es-
pecially actions of tort and suits for damages
for injuries. He was admitted to the bar in
1875, after an extended tri|) through the
^L^Lj/z^'La.i/^^^y
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«^5
sdiitlurn stales. In May, 1875. lie opened an
cifticf in the Vale National I'.ank I'nildinK,
where he has lieen liLated ever since, lie lias
taken liii,'h rank anun;; the lawyers ol Con-
necticut, and is especially in demand as an
advocate on acc(.)iuit of his sncccss as a trial
lawyer. In recent years he has had an exten-
sive liitsiness in the courts of Massachnsetts,
Rhode Island and New York in tryini; heforc
juries cases for daniages. In Connecticut this
class nf cases is not tried hy jury. He has had
Iroin one to four cases in every state report in
Connecticut since \Ohnne 41 was puhlished.
He is in much demand as puhlic speaker.
N'olwithstaiidini; his husy life, he has inain-
taincfl his ac(|uaintance with the classics and
reads Latin and Greek for a pastime. He
speaks I'rench and ( ierman tlueutly. In addi-
tion to hi- law j)r:ictice, he has extensive in-
terests in shiiipinfj and real estate.
lie was a Republican until i8go, when he
differed from his party in some essential
jioints. and since then he has been independ-
ent. In 1888 he was a member of the com-
mon council of New Ha veil from the second
ward, and in the following year was an al-
derman of that city. In i8<)o he was nomi-
nated for state senator and ttiouj.;h his party
was in the minority, he ran ahead of the ticket.
In the same year, he was chairman of the
commission to revise the city charter and ordi-
nances of New Haven and ilid his work thor-
oiij^dily and well. He takes a keen interest in
the letjislation of the state from year to year,
an<l has drafted many important statutes that
have been enacted in recent years, lie has
held various other offices of trust and responsi-
bility, lie was at one time a director of the
New I laven Free Pulilic Library and chair-
man of the I5oard of Registration of New-
Haven for five years. He has held the office
of justice of the peace. He has written arti-
cles on legal topics for various jierioilicals and
newspapers of New Haven and New \ov\<.
He wrote an article on "The Use and Effect of
a Seal on a Written Instrument." for the
nciuh and Bar A'crvVti' (now Tlic Forum).
He has taken out three patents for marine in-
vention — for a new adjustable centre boanl.
a rudder liinsie and a moorini^-linc attach-
ment. He was a trustee of the New Haven
Yacht Club, member of the .Shelter Isl.ind
Yacht Club, and a skillful yachtsman. In the
summer of 1901 he carried the tlag of this
yacht club for the first time into the British
|>rovinces on his schooner yacht "Fearless."
He is also fond of fishinsj and huntini;, and
takes much of his recreation with rod and
line, or with his gun. He has an interestinir
collection of birds, made bv himself and lian<l-
snmely mounted. He i- 1 ni.n I . • ... ;i ,
L<)d|,;e. No. I, Free and
has taken all the dc^i
.\!as«>nry. inchKliny tin lit t»
a member of the Itar of Con-
necticut. I'ur many ye.o - ii> u.i- a vestry-
man of St. Paul's' I'rotestmt HpiHCoial
Church.
He marrie«l. August i.i. iHjH. .Mary Kliza-
bcth. dau^'htcr of Williniv (liiprvmi. of
Itrooklyn. Cliildren: M ' latc
of thc'Orton & Nichol- Ha-
ven, and W'oodsidc ^- ■ '
William Slorrs \\
the honor men in
of \ale College in
(II) I'liiiip i
JCDI) Jud.I (q. V.
baptized .Sei'i-; .. . ,,
married Hannah, daughter ot 1 homas Loo-
mis, of Windsor, by his first wife. He lived
in Farmington, t onnecticut. until a lew years
before his death, ami then removed to Water-
bury, where he died in ' ' • ' " The
inventory of his estate Ijcr
2, iftf^cj, and presented 1 l.irt-
ford, November 11. The widow was adminis-
tratrix, but she seems to have brrn m.irried
again, before if*)], to sonu 'losc
name has not been found, ami nas
Ju«!d and Thomas Jiuld. the ap-
pointed administrators, and to the
chiblren. March, tfiC)i. The i uich
in debt, and considerable was t.\|>^n<lc<l for
the children. One hundred and forlv-four
iviunds were left to be divi! ' ' ''ren:
Philip, mentioned below; Ti i/cd
May 27. i(>S^, died young; II..: ., :ized
October to, \<>^. five years old ; \\ dliam, l>ap-
tized July 3, 1^187. two years oM ; Henjamin,
baptized Mav 4, KiQO, three months old.
(Ill) I'hi'lip (2 1. son of Philip fi) Judd,
was born in 1(173, bapti-' ' ^' • ' ■• i'i8l.
He livcil in that part of I ' iicl.
and dicfl ageil over ei:., een
17^10 and I7^>5. He ami Ins second wife
Lydia were members of the clnirch in Rcth-
el in 17(10. That church seems to have been
organized in i7(>o. He had three s<mis. and
Deacon F. Taylor thought he had five daugh-
ters. Chiblren : Philip; Thomas; Samuel,
mentioned below; Hannah; Rebecca.
(I\') Samuel, son of Philip (2) Judd. of
Danbury. in Hetliel StH-icly. was Ixjni there
in 1700. He married Hannah Knapp. Tlicy
were both membiTs of the church in iTfio.
(."hildren: Fbene/er, iHirn aliout 1743-44:
Samuel, twin of Elienczer. mentioned l»elo\v ;
Comfort. ah<iut 1745; James and Jonathan,
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both Tories in the revokition, joined the lirit-
ish on Long Island, and died without issue ;
Ehjah, June 19, 1759.
(V) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Judd,
was born about .1743-44. He married Lucy
Hawley, and had one child, Benjamin, men-
tioned below. This wife died and he married
a second. He lived some years in Cornwall,
and is believed to have died there.
(VI) Benjamin, son of Samuel (2) Judd,
was born in Bethel, in 1769, died March 6,
1826. He married (first) June 13, 1790,
Zilpha Williams, of Bethel. She died April
15, 18 19, and he married (second) Elizabeth
Sturdevant, April 30, 1820. Children by first
wife : Samuel, bom November 2, 1791 ; Lucy,
December 15, 1792, married Abel Crofut ;
Polly, August 15, 179s, married Stephen Ad-
ams ; Hawley, September 13, 1797, mentioned
below ; Hiram, May 14, 1803. By second
wife: George B., January 24, 1821.
(VII) Hawley, son of Benjamin Judd, was
born September 13, 1797, in Bethel. He mar-
ried, December 31, 1818, Eleanor Adams, of
Redding. Connecticut. He removed to Pem-
broke, New York, and from there to Michi-
gan. His first wife died and he married a
second wife. Children, all born in Bethel :
Betsey, March 29, 1819; Grant, June 29, 1821,
mentioned below; Hiram Benjamin, April 3,
1823: Harrison, June 2, 1825; Henry, July
20, 1827; Amelia, February 22, 183 1 : Frank,
December 18, 1833; Mary, January 28, 1839;
Edgar, March 10, 1841.
(VIH) Grant, son of Hawley Judd, was
born June 29, 182 1, in Bethel. In 1843 he
removed to Stamford, where he passed the
remainder of his life. He was one of the or-
ganizers of the Phoenix Carriage Manufac-
turing Company, of Stamford, with which he
remained until the company dissolved. Dur-
ing his life he was much respected, and had
many fine characteristics. He died January
3, 1892. He married, March 26, 1845, Han-
nah M. Knapp, born June 26, 1827, daughter
of Luther and Hannah fSelleck) Knapp (see
Knapp VI). Child, William Hawley, men-
tioned below.
(IX) William Hawley, son of Grant Judd,
was born at Stamford, Connecticut, February
10, 1850. He was educated chiefly in the pri-
vate .schools of his native town. At the age
of eighteen years he began his business career
in the employ of Fox & St. John, lumber
dealers, Stamford. Upon the death of Mr.
Fox in 1868, the firm name was changed to
St. John & Hoyt, Harvey Hoyt succeeding
to the interests of Mr. Fox. Mr. Judd con-
tinued with the new firm as bookkeeper, sales-
man and manager until 1878, wlien he was ad-
mitted to the firm and the name changed to
St. John, Hoyt & Company. Early in 1888
Mr. Getman, of Oswego, New York, was ad-
mitted to the firm and the name changed to
Hoyt, Getman & Judd and continued thus un-
til 1897, when Mr. Bogardus became a mem-
ber of the firm and the name became Getman,
Judd & Company. Mr. Getman died in 1897
and the concern was incorporated the follow-
ing year under the name of the Getman &
Judd Company, Mr. Judd being president of
the company. Mr. Judd is secretary and
treasurer of tlie St. John Wood Working
Company ; secretary, treasurer and director of
the East Branch Dock Corporation ; treasurer
and director of the Victor Steamboat Com-
pany ; director of the Stamford Trust Com-
pany, the Stamford Hospital, Manufacturers'
Association of Stamford and the Woodland
Cemetery Association ; trustee of the Stam-
ford Savings Bank ; delegate of the Eastern
States Retail Lumber Dealers' Association,
and has served as president of the Connecti-
cut Lumber Dealers' Association. He is a
Republican and somewhat active in politics
and city affairs : he was a burgess of Stam-
ford under the borough government. He is
a member of the Church Club of Connecticut,
the Republican Club of New York, the Sub-
urban Club of Stamford, the Stamford Yacht
Club and the Lumbermen's Club of New York
City. Mr. Judd married, November 11. 1873,
in New York City, Anna Moores, born .\pril
3. 185 1, daughter of Charles W. and Susan
(Mallory) Moores. ^Ir. and Mrs. Judd are
members of St. Andrew's Protestant Epis-
copal Church of Stamford ; he has been a
vestryman for many years and for the past
ten years has served as junior warden of the
church.
(Tlie Sears Line).
(H) Caleb Knapp, son of Nicholas Knapp
( q. v.), was born January 20, 1636. He set-
tled at Stamford. Children, born at Stam-
ford : Caleb, November 24, 1661 ; John, men-
tioned below.
(Ill) John, son of Caleb Knapp, was born
at Stamford, July 25, 1664. He married there,
June 10, 1692, Hannah Ferris. Children, born
at Stamford : Samuel, August 27, 1695 ; John,
August, 14, 1697; Hannah, March 10, 1698-
99: Peter, August 15, 1701 ; Charles, men-
tioned below; Deborah. June 28. 1707; Moses,
.August 6, 1709.
(I\') Charles, son of John Knapp, was born
May 9, 1705, at Stamford. He married there,
June 17, 1731, Bethia Weed. Children, born
at Stamford: Charles, July 18, 1732; Sarah,
.\pril 2. 1734; Hannah, March 29, 1736;
Bethia, June 12, 1738; Jonas, .August 25,
'NNELTICUT
1740: I'ipfiK-m-, M:i\ I'j. 174-': ' inii'i'ii, Dc-
(.rmlitr I, 1744: Silvaiius, November 30. I74'>;
I Iczckiah, iiicntioiicd liolow.
(\') Ilezekiali, son of C'liarlos Knapi), was
Ixirn at Stamford, October 14, 1749, <lif<l at
Stamford. Deccmlier 11. 1S40. He married.
in (irecmvidi, (."oimecticut. September 7. 1775,
Mary IVck, bom \oveml)i-r 13. 1732. <bed
^rptcmbor iq. 184J. He was a soWlier in tlic
M vohilion in I'aptain Jnnatlian \\ bitney's
ii'Mipany, Colonel (General) Wooster's re^ji-
ment in 1776, and was in tlie New York cam-
paign after tbe battle of W'bite [Mains. Me
was a pensioner in 1S40. tben aged ninety
{padres 485 ami (162 Conn. Rev. Rolls). Chil-
ilren. born at .Stamford: Polly. July 18, 1776;
liannali, March u. 1778; Rufus. Angnst 19,
1781 : Sally, November iS. 1785 ; Luther, men-
tioned below: r.ctbia, January 15. 1795.
(\'l) l.utl'.er. son of llezekiah Knapp, was
liorn at Stamford, August 21, 1789. died there
December 5, i8f>6. lie married there, Octo-
lier 25, 1814, Hannah Selleck, born April 23,
1793, died there August 26. iSrii. ilaughtcr of
losei'h .Selleck, born bebruarv 14. 1759, died
March 16, i84r., and I'hocbe (Clock) Selleck,
liorn November 17, 1772, died March 21, 1853.
( bildren, born at .Stamford: Phoebe Selleck,
Inly 19, 1815; Joseph Selleck, March 15,
1818: Mary Peck, June 6, 182 1 : .\nn Eliza,
May 2^1. 1823 : Charles Hezckiah, August 23,
1825: Hannah M., |ime 2f), 1S27: married,
March 26, 1843, (".rant Judd (see Judd \'Ul).
Hiugham. Massachusetts, is
LI NCt >LN (listingui'ihed as the home of
all the first settlers of the
iirname Lincoln. From these pioneers are
descended all the colonial families of the
name, inchiding President Lincoln and more
than one governor and man of note in all
walks of life. The surname was variously
spelled I-iTikhorn. Linkoln. Lincou, and was
common in old Hingbam. in P.ngland. for
more than a century before immigrant ances-
tors made their home in Massachusetts. The
origin or meaning of the name has been a
theme of discussion. Some have maintained
that it is a relic of the .\nglo-Saxon-Norman-
Conquest period, when, near some waterfall
(Anglo-Saxon "lin") a colony (Roman "col-
onia") was founded, thus .giving Lincolonia or
finally Lincolnshire. Eight of the name were
among the first settlers of Hingbam. coming
thither from W'ymondham. county Norfolk.
England. Tliree brothers. Daniel. Samuel and
Thomas, came with their mother Joan. There
were no less than inur naincil Thomas Lincoln,
adults and heads of families, all doubtless re-
lated. Thev were distinguished on the records
and in I<K-al speech by tinir tia^.s 1 bey
were known as Thomas, the miller: Thomas,
the cooper; Thomas, the hn-l'"'"''" ;ind
Tliomas. the weaver. There w en
Lincoln who came with his wiii Ste-
phen, from Wymond. England, in Kj^.S. This
name is spelled also Windham and Wymond-
ham.
( L) Thomas Lincoln, the miller, was bom
in Norfolk county. FiiLhuid in 1603. He
came to Hingham. ttls, in 1635,
and was one of the lie <:imc rear.
He drew a house-lot .1 i; nn,
July 3, 1636, on what '. ct,
near .Main, an ' ^■■'■- • igj.
Before 1630, 1: ts-
sachusetts, an. re
on Mill river at a (xiiht ni iJic vll^
the present city, near the street lea!
the railroad -tation to City Si|u.iro. it : .M
that King Phili|) and lii^ iliicfs omi- met the
colonists in conference in this ni'" ''- • ^ved
in Taimton on the jury in 1631 ly
surveyor there in 1630 and tl lul
owner. He Ix-came one of tl rs
in the famous Taunton iron \vo u-d
October, 1632, as a stock con: ng
other stf>ckholders were Ric' iis,
Richard .Stacy and George W > se
works were operated until 1883, and the dam
and foundation still mark one of fbe most
interesting sites in the I .in
industry. He married ( li iid
(second) December 10. k-'-.. , ,i..ii-i,, ■ li.tr-
vey) Street, widow of Francis .Street. Ijn-
coln gave land in Hingham to his son Thomas,
who sold it October 11, 1662, specifying the
history of the transactions. Lincoln's will
was (latcd August 23, 1683, when he stated
his age as about eighty years. Tlie will was
proved March 3. 1U84. (Iiildren: John,
baptized February, 1639, married Edith Ma-
comber: Samuel, mentioned below: Thomas
Jr., February, 1637-38, at Hingham : Mary, at
Hingham, (October 6. 1642, married William
Hack and Richard Stevens; Sarah, December.
1643, married Joseph Wills, of Taunton, and
settled in Scituatc.
(H) Samuel, son of Thomas Lincoln, the
miller, was bom at Hingham. England, or
vicinity and baptized in Hinpham, Massachu-
setts, in I '137. He married Jane . and
settled in Taunton, Massachusetts. Children:
.^anuiel (<|. v.) liorn June 1. i'i'm: ILm-
nah, married Owen; Tamscn, married
Jonah Austin Jr.; Elizabeth, married William
Briggs.
(Iin .*^.ninuel (2^. -.on of Samuel (i) Lin-
coln, was born at Tatmton. June i, 1664;
11.
srtllcd .It
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Norwich, Connecticut, later in Windham in
that state. He married, June 2, 1692, Eliza-
beth Jacobs, also of an old Hingham family.
Children : Samuel, mentioned below, Jacob,
Tho;vas, Jonah, Nathaniel, died in infancy,
and Elizabeth.
(IV) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Lin-
coln, was born in Windham, Connecticut. No-
vember 29, 1693; married, August 23. 1723,
Ruth Huntington. Children : Samuel, John,
(mentioned below), Nathaniel, who lived to
be one hundred and five years and five months
of age, Joseph, Eleazer and David.
(V) John, son of Samuel (3) Lincoln, was
born at Windham, July 28, 1726, and died
June 7, 1810. He married (first) Rebecca
; (second), May 30, 1758, Annie Sto-
well, widow. Children of first wife : Two died
in infancy. Children of second wife : Annie,
Eleazer, Jonah and lerusha (twins), and
Olive.
(AT) Jonah, son of John Lincoln, was born
at AYindham, November 15, 1760. For many
years in addition to farming on an extensive
scale, he was a wool manufacturer at North
Windham. One of the products of his mill
was satinet that was used in making uniforms
for the revolutionary soldiers and felt for
paper machines. For a time the business flour-
ished, but after the war the commercial crisis
caused heavy losses. For a number of years
his sons were associated with him and the
business was finally taken by his son Stowell.
The later years of Jonah's life, he spent in
farming and at the time of his death he had
a handsome competence. In politics he was
a John Quincy Adams Democrat and took a
keen interest in national, state and town af-
fairs. He was for many years representative
to the general assembly and for a long time
served the district, comprising the towns of
Hampton, Windham and Chaplin, as now con-
stituted, as judge of probate. He was active
in organizing the Christian Church at North
Windham. He died May 14, 1845, ^"d was
buried at North Windham. He married. May
I, 1783, Lucy Webb, born May 31, 1763, died
July 23, 1846, at the age of eighty-three years.
Children, born at Windham: i. James, May
31, 1784; married Asenath Flint. 2. Dan,
mentioned below. 3. Stowell, October 28,
1788, for many years a manufacturer at North
Windham, captain of the artillery company ;
married Maria Welch and died March 29,
1870. 4. John, February 17, 1791 ; married
Millany Huntington and was a farmer in
Berks county, Pennsylvania, where he died.
5. Ralph, December 22. 1792; married Almira
Trumbull, was a manufacturer at North
Windham and died June 24, 1876. 6. Elisha,
January 12, 1795: married Eliza Aplin, was a
farmer in Berks county, then in Ohio, and
finally in \'an Buren, Arkansas, where he died.
7. Lucy, July 11, 1797; married Benjamin
Perry, a carpenter. 8. Marcia, November 2;^,
1799: married Luther Burnham, a farmer of
Hampton and finally at North Windham
where he died. 9. Albert, September 9, 1802,
graduated at the military academy at West
Point and while on his way to Fort Anthony,
now Minneapolis, Minnesota, died, October
13, 1822, at St. Louis, Missouri. 10. Burr,
October 2, 1804; married Elmira W^ood.
(VII) Dan, son of Jonah Lincoln, was
born July 27, 1786; died December 31, 1864.
In early manhood he entered his father's
mill at North Windham, became an expert
clothier and later a partner of his brother
Stowell.
In middle life he bought the Tucker
farm, just over the Windham line in Chaplin,
and built thereon the Clover Mill. Later he
removed to Scotland and followed farming.
His last years were spent on the Burr Lin-
coln place, later William Sibley's, in North
Windham and he died there. For many years
he was captain of militia and was widely
known as ''Captain Dan." He was a prom-
inent citizen in this section ; was selectman of
both Windham and Qiaplin. He was of sound
judgment and strong character. His counsel
and advice were sought by many and he had
many friends in all classes of people. He mar-
ried, February 6. 1812. Mehitable Flint of
North Windham, born November 3, 1787, died
September 3, 1875. Children: 1. Amanda,
born November 10, 1812; died January 12,
i8go: married Edwin E. Burnham of Wind-
ham, a prominent merchant and real estate
dealer in later life at Willimantic. 2. Mason,
March 26, 1816, a blacksmith at North Wind-
ham, afterward a banker and real estate broker
at Willimantic: died July 10, 1889. 3. Allen,
of further mention. 4. Albert, September
15, i8ig, blacksmith until the civil war. en-
listed and returned disabled, engaged in
farmine. died at Coventry, January u, 1885.
5. Jared \A'., September 8, 1823, still living
( igi I ) in Chaplin : was a school teacher, then
a farmer in Windham and Scotland, Con-
necticut ; bought Allen Lincoln's store
in Chaplin in 1857; was appointed post-
master bv President Lincoln and except dur-
ing two Democratic administrations was post-
master until he retired and was succeeded by
his son : was town clerk and treasurer in
1863 and continually until 1905, thereafter
represented the town of Chaplin in the gen-
eral assembly in 1862: clerk and treasurer of
the Congregational Society until 1908. 6.
COXXECTICIT
r^i
Earlc. died yl)lln5,^ 7. Imiali, died yminj^. 8.
Dan Jr.. died xoiinj,'.
(Mil) Allen, >c,n of Dan Lincoln, was
born in the north end of the town of Wind-
ham. Connecticut. October 16. 1817. lie at-
tendetl the district schools and worked during
his hovhood on the farm. Fn i8,^i his parents
removed to the Tucker farm over the line in
the town of Chaj)lin and lie was "bound out"
ami had more than his share of hard work
and driidj,fcry. lUit his schoolinf,-- was not neg-
lected and in the course of time he was found
competent to teach. When he came of age he
purchased the Tucker farm, where he had
lived when a hoy, goingf in debt for the entire
amoiuit of the purchase price and making,' the
place pay for itself. Wlieii a vovni,' man he
bou,L;iil wool in the west and sold woolen f.;cio(ls
there, in addition to his farming. Twice be-
fore he was thirty-five he met with reverses
and lo.-t all his property, but he was never
discouraged. In 1833 he removed to Chaplin
and opened a general store. Four years later
he opened a similar store in Willimantic. in
what was then the principal part of the vil-
la|,'e. at the corner of Bridge and Main streets,
and retained his store at Chajilin. but finally
sold it to his brother Jareil W. Lincoln. In
i8'>4 he made his home permanently in Willi-
mantic. In jiartnership with I. Lester Eaton,
also of Chaplin, he opened a general store
in the old "jlrainard House" and carried on
business there r.ntil. in company with F,. F..
Rurnham and J. G. Keigwin, he built Union
I'.Iiick and removed to the sture that was in
later years occupied by John M. .Mpangh, his
son-in-law. to whom he tinall\ sold his busi-
ness. .After leaving Chaplin, he bought the
Howes property on L^nion street, opened Tem-
ple. \'alley and Center streets and sold lots
and built dwelling houses there. He erected
the brick house on Center street. For a long
time he and F. F. Ilurnliam were in part-
nershi]! in the real estate business in which
they were very successful. In 1860 he pur-
chased the Hassett Block and soon afterward
a large tract of land on Prospect Hill. In
1876 he formed a partnership with E. .\.
Buck and E. M. Durkce in the flour and
grain business. This firm was dissolved in
TS71). Soon afterward he took into partner-
ship his only son. .Mien B. Lincoln, under the
firm name of A. Lincoln & .Son, and con-
tiinicd in business to the time of his death.
lie was elected to various offices of honor
and trust and filled them with characteristic
zeal and faithfulness. In Chaplin he was
postmaster and town clerk and in 1855 rep-
resented the town in the general assembly.
In Windham he was selectman. t'>wn clerk
nil'! trrrt-nrcr seventeen yciirs, and f. .1 ri.ins
ivc trial justice, lie
liners In establish an.:
I..-, .^.u<l^,.,r^s : - • -
lave C.I Williinai'
and Useful in In.r.
he was a director of tiic U ilinnai
Institute and for a time was pre-
Willimantic Trust Company. ]]■
inally a Democrat, but in 1836 vol.
Soil ticket and joined ''•• ''
at its organizati(jn. li
tionalist he served tlu
was a member in varioii, ..iViccs and was
active in the movement that resnl(n<l in n nf\v
church building .it Wi"
member of I".;isterii S;
Accejited .Masons. IU ,;
and was buried in the cemetery at '
The following tribute to his rbnr
of nvmy: "Mr. Allen l.ino.ln
years a director of this banl
tute), having been suddenly rem .m.i ir..m ■ :r
midst by death. UesoKcd. that in the death
of Mr. Lincoln, who met with us at the last
meeting of the l)oarn, we feel that this bank,
in common with other public interests with
which he was connected, has lost a valuable
helf)er, and that as fellow officers, we take
this opportunity to exprc-s or- • • •• ■'
his uniform and prompt .r-
ways, and the valuable advi. .
he has rendered in this manageincni .w the
affairs of the bank. We miss his kinHlv pres-
ence from our councils, and honor " ' 'i
his memory as a pleasant compani.
citi/en. who discharged any trust
private, to which he was called. -.
and ability. Resolved, that these
be placed in the records of the b.mk. .m.; a
copy fielivered to the invalid widow and the
family of the deceased, as an cxpre~.-ion of
our sympathy with them in their affliction.
He was an able and successful bnsine-.- man.
facing loss an<l misfortune with c<iurage and
honor, |)aying his dthts in full and nskinij no
favors. He was considerate and -
with others in mi^ifortune and ■..:
charity. His manly, -lerling ''■ ■•
exam])le and inspiration in th
he moved. He was a devot. ■ i
father. He married. May 23, 1841, in Clw|)-
lin. .^allinila Beimett, who was Iiom. in that
town lanuar\ j8. i8iS" • ■ ]\',i-
con Origen ami .Sallin.' nclt.
The BalKocks were a . the
Bennetts of Stoninglon, t onnecticut. l^eacon
Origen Bennett was a farmer and for years
was deacon of the Baptist church at Spring
Hill, Mansfield, Connecticut. Mrs. Lincoln
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was one of the four children of his second
marriage. Origen Bennett Jr. taught school
at Chaplin for more than forty years. Mrs.
Lincoln died December 26, 1900, and is buried
at Willimantic. A memorial baptismal font
of bronze and marble has been erected in
memory of yir. and Mrs. Lincoln in the First
Congregational Church, of which they were
members. Children of Allen and Sallinda
(Bennett) Lincoln: i. Martha Sallinda, born
in Chaplin, April i, 1847; married John M.
Alpaugh, of ^Villimantic. later of Providence,
Rhode Island ; children : Frank L. and Clif-
ford J. Alpaugh. 2. Janette (twin), born De-
cember 22, 1848; married Frank F. Webb,
of Willimantic. 3. Lila, twin of Janette, mar-
ried Edward H. Brown, of Providence, and
has three children — W'ard L., Preston and
Mabel B. Brown. 4. Allen Bennett, mentioned
below.
(IX) Allen (2) Bennett, son of Allen (r)
Lincoln, was born August 2, 1858, in the house
that stood formerly near the corner of Church
and Main streets. His schooling was begun in
Miss Rose Dimock's private school. In 1865
he entered the Natchaug School, which was
founded in that year and graduated in 1875.
He then entered the Williston Seminary at
Easthampton and was graduated in the class
of 1877. He graduated from Yale College
with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1881.
For about a year he was associated in busi-
ness with his father, but his tastes were liter-
ary and he accepted a position as editorial
writer on the stall of the Providence Evening
Press, under Z. L. White. Afterward he held
a similar position on the Providence Journal,
under George W. Danielson. In 1885 he re-
turned home, on account of ill health,
and soon afterward was elected temporary
clerl- of the state board of education in place
of A. J. Wright, who was absent on sick
leave. In the fall of 1886 he established The
Connecticut Home, at Willimantic, making it
the state organ of the Prohibition pirty. Four
years later, he removed the office to Hartford
and combined his paper with the Worcester
Times, a similar newspaper, which he bought,
and continued the amalgamated journals under
the name of The Neiv England Home, which
took high rank among the Prohibition news-
papers of the country. The Prohibition party
strength was undermined by political changes
and the support of the party newspapers weak-
ened. In November, 1894, Mr. Lincoln sold
his paper to what was afterward The Neiv
Voice, published in Chicago. In 1895 ^''^ es-
tablished in Willimantic a branch of the Co-
operative Savings Society and also carried on
a fire insurance a2;encv. He added life
insurance to his business. In May, 1901, he
sold his other business and has since devoted
his attention chiefly to life insurance. He
developed successfully the district agency of
the Northwestern 3,Iutual Life, in eastern Con-
necticut, and May i, 1909, he was appointed
manager of the district offices of the same
company in New Haven, Connecticut and in
September, 1909, removed his residence from
Willimantic to New Haven. His literary work
has not been confined to newspapers. He was
while in college an editor of the Yale Courant
for three years. In 1883 he wrote a history
of the Natchaug School and in 1885 a "His-
tory of all the Fire Companies ever formed
in Windham," both of which were published
in pamphlet form and were valuable contribu-
tions to local history. In 1885 he wrote a
series of articles on civil service reform which
were personally commended by George Wil-
liam Curtis and issued in pamphlet form by
the Willimantic Civil Service Reform Asso-
ciation. He developed ability as a public
speaker and during various political campaigns
spoke at rallies of his party in more than a
hundred towns in Rhode Island, Connecticut
and New York. He was chairman of the
Prohibition State Committee for several years
and a number of his addresses were published
as campaign documents of the Prohibition
party. In 1892 he was chosen historian of
the town of Windham at tlie bi-centennial
celebration, and was editor and compiler of the
Memorial Volume, published in 1893. In
June, 1900, The Hartford Times published an
article on "A New Democracy" written by
Mr. Lincoln, and said editorially: "His
conclusions must appeal powerfully to all
patriotic Americans, and presentation of
them has not been excelled in force or
precision by any writer on public ques-
tions who has recently addressed the
American public." He cast his first vote
for the Republican party, but in 1884 sup-
ported Cleveland. In 1886 he joined the Pro-
hibition party and in recent years he has been
independent of all parties in his political
action. He has served on the school board of
Willimantic and was charter member of the
W^illimantic Board of Trade. He is a mem-
ber of the executive committee of the State
Civil Service Reform Association, delegate-
at-large in the State Brotherhood of Congre-
gational Men's Clubs, and member of the New
Haven Chamber of Commerce and the Grad-
uates' Club. He and his wife are members
of the Congregational Church, Willimantic,
of which he was superintendent of the Sun-
day school for ten years. He married, Decem-
ber 18, 1883, Caroline Laura Buck, born
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Marcli _'5. iS^q, dauiilitcr of Kdwiii A. and
Delia Lincoln I'.uck. Ilcr father was formerly
^talc treasurer of Connecticut, residinj^ at
\sliiiinl. Mrs. Lincoln was active in church
and Micial lirdes in Williinantic. Children:
I. Marion liuck, horn January 2, i88S. 2.
l-'.lsie lieiniett. November 2"], i8y2. 3. Har-
lara < irace, ( 'ctolrer 15, 1896. 4. Julia
\rmour, June 27. 1899.
William Buck, the inimij^rant an-
PiL'CK ccstor, came from I-'ngland on the
ship "Increase," which sailed,
.\])ril. 1633. and landed in a month at I'os-
ton, Massachusetts. At that time, he ijavc his
age as fifty years, and so he was bom in
1585. His son Roger, then eighteen years old,
was with him. lie settled at Cambridge, ^L^s-
-.iclni setts. He ha<l a grant of land of twenty
acres in 1652, which was lot No. 91 in the
ri-called Cambridge Survey. The new home
was situated in what was called the west field,
now Raymond street, Jiorthcisl from (larden
-treet. He was a plough-wright. He died,
intestate, January 24, 1658. He was buried
n the old cemetery at Cambridge. His son
Koger was administrator.
( H) Roger, son of William Ruck, was born
II iC)!", in Pingland. He came with his
lathcr to Xew England on the "Increase."
Xpril 15. 16.^5. His mother was probably
lead at this time. It is supposed that Lnoch
. iid Emanuel Hiick who settled at Wethers-
lield, Connecticut, were relatives, and were
perhaps sons of William Buck. Roger Buck
was a plough-wright and a farmer. He set-
tled near his father at Cambridge, and when
bis wife Susannah died, he moved to Woburn
where sonic of bis children lived, fie died in
Woburn. November 10, if>9.V Children: John,
lorn ."September 3, 1644: Ephraim, July 26,
\<\i,G. mentioned l)clow : Mary, born January'
J3, 1648; Ruth. November (\ 1633; Elizabeth,
July 3. i'i3~: Lydia. married November 3,
1672. Henry .Smith; Samuel, March 16. 1669.
(Ill) Ephraim. son of Roger Buck, was
born at Cambridge, July 26, 1646. He mar-
ried. January 1, 1671. Sarah, daughter of
John and E.unice ( Mousall ) Brooks of Wo-
burn. He t!oubtless settled there a few years
before he married, as he is mentioncfi in the
will of John Mousall, whose granddaughter
he married, and Mr. Mou.sall died March 2"/,
1663. He was a man of much distinction.
He was appointed local magistrate by the gen-
eral court, to try small causes. He was a
farmer. His grandson Jonathan was the
founder of Bucksport. Maine. He died, Jan-
uary, 1721, at Woburn. Children: Sarah,
born January 11. 1673: Ephraim. July 13.
1676; John, Januar
John, l-'ebruary 7.
bcr 13, 1682. mentii.tii-cl !k;I-'\s ; ],■ ■
7, 1685: Ebenczer, May 20, 1689; M .
ber 28, \()f)\.
(IN) Samuel, son of Ephraim Buck, was
born at Woburn, November 13. \fS^2. Alxjut
1708, he married Hannah "'cd
at Woburn. and was a fam. n:
Hannah. • ' ' 1710; .■^ainiu-,. ..lay
7. 171 1 . ; Sarah. April 16,
1716: Z> ., j.^, 1719.
(V) Samuel (2j, son of Samuel (l) Btick.
was born at Woburn. >fnv 7. 171 t, nnd d-rd
at Killingly, Com
From records in C
tween the Thorn)'
is found. Samuel
with n)any other 1
lingly and Thom;--..n, <
Batcman joined the KH'i
ber 15, 171 3. ■
from \\'cst '
May 23, 1716
ard of Lexington. ' he
stream of emigraf > ral
years from Woburn to TlK.iiip.Nun. Jair.o W'il-
son and Ivory L'pham joined the church in
1729. from Woburn. \'cr ' ' ' ' " ;ck
came with relatives in -re
is nothing but a rccor ^ . of
Robert Buck, in 171 3, and he may have
been one of the Wcthcrsficld family. Sam-
uel was one of the heads of families
who signed the covenant on November
19, 1743. an'' • 'I ' 'Vv. Perley Howe of
Dudlcv, Mas- settle as minister at
Killingly. 11. : farm .n K;!t::-!v
Hill in 1736, of Kiienczcr, on ^^
The Rev. Mr. Howe kept no >
so that information about ^ : s
family is bard to find. For •
was deacon of the church. Iv
succeeded by Lieutenant Ben
who may have Ixjen related t
from Woburn. The son of >
Jr., married a Miss Blo^s. wIk nie
from W ■" ' is
good n v-
ing nauT. uie
ccrtainlv are. Cinidren: 1. /crviiili, married
Giles Roberts, .April 3. 1734. 2. OaviH men-
tioned below. 3. Samuel, \v ha
Bloss, January i. \~(yo. 4. J' in
the revolutionary w"- ■ "M cd
at the battle of Har er
15, 177^). 3. .'\ap : -35.
(i. Child, died OctoUr 3, 173O. 7. Ktiibcn,
married Elizabeth, joined the church, 1769.
(\T) David, son of Samuel (2) Buck, mar-
he
ok
■el
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ried Anna Russell, June 22, 1756. He came
from Massachusetts to Putnam, a part of
Thompson or Killingly township, where he
settled. He was a farmer and a joiner. Chil-
Jren, by first wife: David, Jonathan, Aaron,
mentioned below ; Mrs. Josiah Dean, ]\Irs.
Benjamin Cutler, two daughters who succes-
sively married Resolved Wheaton. By second
marriage : David ; Eliza, married Henry
Adams.
(\TI) Aaron, son of David Buck, was born
at Killingly and lived on the old homestead.
He married Annie, daughter of Asa Lawrence,
of Killingly. Children : Lucy, married Calvin
Leffingwell ; Rosamond, married Calvin
Boyden : Mary, married Jesse Herenden ;
Anne, married Caleb Howe : Erastus ; Elisha ;
Augustus, mentioned below ; George, born
October 13, 1810.
(A''HI) Augustus, son of Aaron Buck, died
of scarlet fever at the age of thirty-seven,
after a few days' illness. On February 15,
1827, he married Lucy Knowlton Brooks, who
died February 8, 1856, and was buried beside
her husband in the Baptist Cemetery at West-
ford. She was born February 27, 1801, daugh-
ter of Simeon Brooks, who vv^as born in 1767,
and died in 1844. Simeon Brooks married
Eunice Bass, and had three children, Juliana,
Lucy Knowlton. and Maria. Simeon, was son
of Deacon Abijah Brooks of Ashford, Con-
necticut, who married Lucy Knowlton and had
twelve children. He was a deacon in the Ash-
ford Presbyterian Church, and was a prom-
inent man. His wife was distinguished in the
community for her many excellent qualities.
It is said of her. that a short time before her
death as she was about to retire for the night,
she saw a light flash up before her, at times
brilliant and then fading away, and she called
this a warning of her approaching death. She
lived but a few days longer, dying April 16,
1820. She was daughter of William Knowl-
ton, who was born in 1706, and married, in
1728, Martha Binder of Boxford, who was of
a noble ancestry. Colonel Thomas Knowlton,
the noted revolutionary soldier, and Lieuten-
ant Daniel Knowlton, were sons of William.
He was born in Ipswich, but removed to West
Boxford. He spent his last days in Ashford,
where he moved about 1740. He was son
of Nathaniel Knowlton Jr., who was born
in 1683. In 1703 he married Mary Burnett,
and they had six children. Nathaniel Knowl-
ton, father of Nathaniel Jr., was born in 1658,
and married Deborah Jewett in 1682. They
had seven children. He was a very prom-
inent man, and held a high position in the
colony. An old historian says of him :
"Though honored by men he did not forget
to honor his God." He died in 1726 and his
wife in 1743. He was son of John Knowlton
Jr., who was born in 1633, and married Sarah
Whipple. They had ten children. His father,
John, was born in 1610, and married Mar-
jery Wilson, and they had three children.
Captain William Knowlton, father of John,
was at least part owner of a vessel in which
he, with his wife and children, sailed to
America. He died on the voyage, and a
gravestone erected to his memory still stands
in Shelburne, Canada. His wife and children
moved to Hingham, Massachusetts. Captain
William Knowlton, father of Captain William,
was born in 1584, and married Ann Elizabeth
Smith. He was son of Richard Knowlton,
who was born in Kent in 1553, and married
Elizabeth Cautize on July 15, 1577. They
had four children. The coat-of-arms of the
Knowlton family is: "Argent, a chevron, be-
tween crowns and ducal coronets sable." The
crest is a demi-lion, rampant. The motto is :
"Vi at Virtute."
(IX) Edwin Augustus, son of Augustus
Buck, was born in Ashford, Connecticut. Feb-
ruary II, 1832. He married, May 9, 1855,
Delia A., daughter of George and Laura (Ash-
ley) Lincoln of Ashford. She was born here
November 27, 183 1, in Westford Society, and
died at Willimantic, February 28, 1906. Mrs.
Buck was always very active in church and
social work, both in Ashford and Willimantic.
Her father, George Lincoln was a tanner by
trade, and a well-known citizen in Ashford
representing that town in the general assembly
of 1847. Mrs. Buck belonged to Anne Wood
Elderkin Chapter. Daughters of American
Revolution. Edwin Augustus Buck received
an elementary education at a neighboring
school, and then attended the Ashford Acad-
emy. WHien eighteen vears old, he began to
teach school at the school which he had at-
tended as a scholar, having many of his form-
er schoolmates as pupils. He received a dollar
a day and boarded at home. He taught for
three terms in district No. 4, two in the Woods
district, and one in the Knowlton district.
When he was twenty-four he began business
for himself. He furnished sawed lumber for
various trades, such as car timber, plough
beams, and finished lumber in chestnut. His
business soon became large. The Collinsville
Axe Company which was making at that time
a cast-steel plough, bought of him many thou-
sand plough beams. In Boston and Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, he had customers who gave
him ver\- large orders, also, and he supplied
many thousand feet of chestnut lumber for
furniture. In the later fifties he purchased the
bankrupt stock of the Westford Glass Com-
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paiiy, and the late Senator John S. Dean and
his son (afterwards Mayor Cliarles L. Dean
of Maiden. Mass.) were associated with Mr.
Buck in the carryinjj on of that business. .Soon
they o])ened brancli lioiiscs in N'cw York and
Boston. After about twenty years Mr. Buck
retired from the firm and moved to WilHman-
tic, where he became associated with the late
.Alien Lincoln in the grain business. The
firm was called Lincoln, Buck & Durkce, in
1876, when the late Everett M. Durkce of
Ashford joined it. It is now Stiles and I lar-
rin},'ton. Before leaving Ashford he had been
identified with the business interests of Staf-
ford Springs, where he was a director of the
St.itTord National Bank, and president of the
Stafford .Savings Bank from 1874 to 1877.
He bought the hardware business of Craw-
forrl it r.anford at .StafTord Springs, and put
it in charge of his oldest son, George E. Buck,
giving it the firm name, E. A. Buck & Co.
In 1900 this was sold out. He and his son
established in Palmer, a hardware store and
oil business which was carried unrler the name
E. A. Buck & Co.. also. His younger son,
W'illiam .\. Buck, was a partner with him in
Hour and grain in W'illimantic and still carries
on the business under the name of E. A. Buck
& Co. Edwin Augustus Buck was also inter-
ested extensively in lumber for many years.
He died in W'illimnntic, May 12, 1905. He
wa^ a man of sound judgment and good busi-
ness ability. He held many positions of trust
and importance. Me was a trustee of the
W'illimantic Savings Institute: a director in
the W'illimantic Machine Company : a trustee
of the A. G. Turner estate ; assignee of the J.
Dwight Chaffee property ; a trustee of the \V.
G. and .\. R. Morrison estate, all large es-
tates. He acquired much real estate in Willi-
mantic, and much landed property in Willi-
mantic and .\shford. He was active and
pr>>minent in politics all his life. WHien a very
young man. he became town constable. When
he was twenty-four he was sent to the gen-
eral assembly from .\shford. although the op-
posing candidate was Ebenczcr Chaffee, a
prominent citizen. He was the yotmgcst mem-
ber of the assembly at the time. In i86j he
was again elected by a coalition of I'nion
Democrats and Republicans. He was of great
help to the I'nion cause during the war. and
secured many pensions for soldiers after the
war. He was elected to the legislature in
1865 by the Democrats. In 1874 and 1875 he
was in the general assembly, and in both ses-
sions was on the judiciary committee. .-Kfter
he removed to W'illimantic he was chosen a
member of the state senate, and in 1876. state
treasurer. The session in which he served in
the senate was the last in the old Stale House.
In 1878 he was nominated for re-election as
treasurer, but the entire i>artv tiri<.f wn- de-
feated in that election. \'
a borough, he served
selectman for the town
appointed state bank c
Morris. He was not a 1
but contributed liberally to the 3\nt\n,n .ji all.
He hclpe<l many men over har<l yil.irp«. and
few realize the extent of 1 '
Children: i. Ger^rgc E.. re
Massachusetts. 2. Lucy .M., :,
3. Charlotte E., married Dr. T. K. I'arkcr of
Willimantic; member of the na;c^itnrs of
American Revolution 4. Car- nar-
ried Allen B. Lincoln of \Vi' \ of
New Il;iven ( si-o liiuohn. - v.i: :: A.;
member of E. .A. Buck & Co. ; married Mary
J. Phillips of W'illimaiitir >'. Bertie I^, died
youn. 7. ilia 1 . 'mr 1. Bill
of Willimantic.
John Plum was a yeoman of
PLL'ME Toppesfield, county Essex, Eng-
land. In the visitation of Essex,
in 1634, John Plumer is reptirtcd as father
of Robert, of Great Yeldham, in Essex, hut
no other children are mentioned. lohn in his
will mentions Robert, T' ' '
dren of son John, dece 1
ters. The will is dated . , _:. .. ...
Then we have the will 01 Rotjcrt, the elder,
dated January 9, 1611-12, wherein he gives to
his children and his seconri wife's children,
and to sisters Alice Enstcrford's and .Margaret
Edgeley's children, naming them, and then "to
Thomas Plume my eldest brother'' ^on" and
to the children of John Plume, who was his
eldest son. It is thought that his eldest
bntther was named John, and the }'-,U<y lhr»t
was his eldest son was born before t!
field register begins, 1560. and ■;
Robert's will, in 1611-12. He mar:;* .
beth . who was buried October i. 158O.
Children : R<ibert, mentioned below : John,
bom about 1332: .Mice, about 1534: Margar-
et, about i.v^'i: daughter, about 1538; Thomas,
about 1540; daughter. al>out 1542.
(II) Robert. sf«n of John Plum, was l>om
about 1330, at Toppesfield. He was a yeoman.
He lived at Great Yeldham, county Essex.
He owned much land in Grfrit Yc'dhnm. Little
Yeldham. Toppesfield. \'. Bul-
iner. C.istle I ledin'.,'h.ini ind
Halstcd, in county Essca ■■< ^ .i< , |..vnes
and Butlers manors and much other land to
Robert, his eldest son. Yeldham Manor to
Thomas. Hawkd<in Hall, in Suffolk, to Ed-
mund, and other land to a married daughter.
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and bequeathed also to children of his brothers
and sisters. He married (first) Elizabeth Pur-
cas, who was buried June 25, 1596; (second)
Ethelred Fuller's widow, who died in Alay,
1615. He was buried May 18, 1613. Chil-
dren: Margaret, born about 1556; Robert,
mentioned below ; Elizabeth, baptized Decem-
ber 9, 1560; Thomas, March 12, 1563-64;
Mary, baptized October 9, 1566; Anne, bap-
tized May 2, 1569; Edmund, baptized Septem-
ber 2, 1571 ; infant son, born about 1575;
Joseph.
(HI) Robert (2), son of Robert (i) Plum,
was born about 1558, and settled at Spaynes
Hall, Great Yeldham. His son Robert was
eldest and the heir; his son John, mentioned
below, received only a small estate with Ridge-
well Hall, Essex. He was buried at Great
Yeldham, August 14, 1628. He married Grace
Crackbone, buried July 22, 161 5. Children,
born at Great Yeldham: Robert, 1587: ^lar-
tha, baptized March 20, 1592-93 ; John, men-
tioned below; Thomas, about 1596; Mary,
about 1598; Ethelred, baptized April i, 1599;
Frances, baptized November i, 1601 ; Hannah,
baptized August 26, 1604.
(IV) John (2), son of Robert (2) Plum,
was baptized at Great Yeldham, July 28, 1594-
He resided after his marriage at Spaynes Hall,
Great Yeldham. He was living there, ac-
cording to the official visitation, in 1634. He
came to Wethersfield, Connecticut, as early as
1635, and died at Branford, Connecticut, in
July, 1648. He owned a vessel, in which he
probably came to Wethersfield, and in which
he made trading voyages on the Connecticut
river. It is surmised to have been his vessel
which was employed to carry Captain John
Mason's little army in the Pequot war around
Narragansett Bay to the point of their attack,
and that he took part in that fight and received
therefor a grant of land. He was the first
ship-owner in Wethersfield. He was a juror ;
representative to the general court in 1637-41-
42-43; collector of customs in 1644; nomin-
ated as assistant, but was defeated. He sold
out at Wethersfield in 1644, and removed to
Branford, where, in 1645, ^^^ ^^^^ chosen to
keep the town's books. He died August i,
1645. His will was proved August i, 1645.
His wife Dorothy was living as late as 1669.
Children : Robert, baptized at Ridgewell, De-
cember 30, 1617; John, baptized May 27,
1619; William, born May 9, 1621 ; Ann, bap-
tized October 16, 1623 ; Samuel, mentioned
below; Dorothea, baptized January 16, 1626;
Elizabeth, born October 9, 1629; Deborah.
July 28, 1633.
(V) Samuel, son of John (2) Plimn, was
baptized at Ridgewell, county Essex, England,
January 4, 1625-26. He settled at Branford,
Connecticut. He sold out his land at Bran-
ford, June 23, 1668, and removed to Newark,
New Jersey. The name of his wife is not
known. He died January 22, 1703. Children:
Elizabeth, born January 18, 1650-51; Mary,
April I, 1653; Samuel, March 22, 1654-55;
John, mentioned below ; Doratha, March 26,
1655-56; Joshua, August 3, 1662; Joanna,
i\Iarch II, 1665-66. The name is spelled
Plum, but most of the descendants follow
the spelling Plume.
(\T) John (3), son of Samuel Plum, was
born at Branford, October 28, 1657. He lived
in Newark, died there July 12, 1710. He mar-
ried, in 1677, Flannah, daughter of Azariah
Crane. Children, born at Newark : Mary ;
Sarah ; Jane ; Hannah ; John, mentioned below.
(VII) John (4) Plume, son of John (3)
Plum, was born 1696, at Newark. He was the
first to use the present spelling. Plume. He
married Joanna Crane, who died March 9,
1760. He married (second). Mary .
who was living in 1784. Children : Isaac, born
October i, 1734; Stephen; Mary; Jane; Phebe ;
Joanna; Joseph; John (mentioned below).
(VIII) John (5), son of John (4) Plume,
who was born about 1743, died about Jan-
uary, 1 77 1. He married Susan Crane. Chil-
dren, born at Newark: Joseph R., July 30,
1766; Matthias, 1768; David, mentioned be-
low ; Robert.
(IX) David, son of John (5) Plume, was
born at Newark, 1769, died there August 27,
1835. He was a prosperous farmer. He mar-
ried Matilda Cook. Children, born at New-
ark: Margaret, 1795; Robert, mentioned be-
low; Amzi, married Phebe Peach; James C,
born 1801, married Anna Maria Ross.
(X) Robert (3), son of David Plume, was
born in 1799, at Newark, New Jersey. Early
in life he learned the trade of carriage maker,
and came to North Haven, Connecticut, to
follow his trade. After his marriage he re-
turned to Newark to live. He married Au-
relia Hulse, a descendant of the Barnes family,
one of the prominent families of North Haven.
(XI) David Scott, son of Robert (3)
Plume, was born at New Haven, Connecticut,
August 22, 1829. He received his early educa-
tion in Lovell's Lancastrian School, and after
the return of the family to Newark, in 1835,
attended a private school in that city. When
he was fifteen years old he entered the employ
of a manufacturer of brass goods at Newark,
to learn the business. He won promotion
rapidly, and soon occupied positions of large
responsibility. When he was twenty-two years
old, in 1852. he embarked in business for him-
self as a brass manufacturer in Newark, with
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<*)S
a store in New York City. Watcrlnirv being
the centre of brass niannfacturinj,' at tliat
time, and in the cmirsc of iiis business he came
to know the manufacturers there. In iS'/) he
bought an interest in the Thomas Manufac-
turing Company, at Plymouth Hollow, Con-
necticut (now Thnmaston), anil removed to
that village to take charge of the plant. In
1869 he was one of the founders of the Plume
& Atwood Manufacturing Company, of Water-
bury. It was a joint stock company, and his
associates were Israel Holmes, John C. Booth,
Lewis J. Atwood. .Xanm Thomas, George W.
\\'eiton and I'.urr Tucker. The name origin-
ally adopted was the Holmes, Booth & At-
wood Manufacturing Company, but on Jan-
uary 1, 1871. this was changed to its present
form, the Plume & Atwood Manufacturing
Company. Israel Holmes was the first presi-
dent, John C. Booth secretary, and Mr. Plume
treasurer. Soon afterward the company
bought the Hayden & Griggs Manufacturing
Company, and in June following purchased
the brass rolling mill of the Thomas Manu-
facturing Company, at Tliomaston. The capi-
tal stock was then ?400,ooo. During the same
year the erection of tlic factory on Banks street
was begun. This plant aiid that at Thomaston
have both been enlarged from time to time,
anrl the con-i'n lias lield its jilace among the
foremost brass manufacturers of the country.
It manufactures sheet brass, brass wire, lamp
burners and trimmings, copper rivets, pins and
similar goods, .\fter the death of Mr. Holmes,
in July, 1874. Mr. Booth was elected presi-
dent and Lewis J. Atwood secretary. The
company was incorporated by the general as-
sembly in January. 1880. .\fter the death
of Mr. Booth, in July. 1S86, Burr Tucker was
clcctetl president, and Robert H. .Swayze. of
New York City, secretary. Mr. Plume con-
tinued as treasurer of the concern. Mr. Pltune
was also treasurer of tiie .American Ring Com-
pany, another of the great manufacturing con-
cerns of W'aterhury. Me removed- his resi-
dence from Thomaston to Waterliury in 1873.
In politics he was a Whig until the civil war,
and afterward a Republican. He never sought
public office, however, though he held a num-
ber of places of trust and h'>nor. He repre-
sented the town in the sjener.il assembly in
1 87^1. and was re-elected in 1S78. He ranked
easily among the foremost men of tlie city
in business and civil life. He was a director
of the Xew York & New England Railroad
Company, formerly the Hartford. Providence
& Fislikill railroad, and now a part of the
New 'S'ork. Xew Haven & Hartford system.
Mr. Plume was one of the organizers of the
W.-it.M-linrv H,ir~.- Raili, ..kI Cc,inii:mv, .tikI held
the oflice of president *'•• — *'— '•••• ■ ••■
corporation imtil it ■.
Waterbury Traction ( ■ :
ticut Electric Company was the liisl i-j iuini>li
electricity for lighting and p«iw<-r in W.hit-
bury. and he was ele. i
it w:is organized, in
Traction Company caii>
of which he was prcs
merged with the Conn'
and Lighting Company he Mas a Uiieclui and
vice-president of the corporation. He was
also the most act! ■ " ' »■ ^■
building the first t
bury, and the 01:,
came pjirt of the Southern
tern. When the Colonial T-
inci)r|)(irated he was
office he held till the i
was a director of the 1 n
Insurance Company, of H:i-
Waterbury Hospital. Mr. I'
her of the Union league Club, of New \ ork
City ; also the Waterbury Club and the H^rrc
Club, of Waterbury. He w ■.
of the Protestant Episcopal '
ricd, C)ctober 16, 1855, .\h\<\^ *
ardson, of Newark. Children : I
enm. i(|.v.i : David .\'.. died '>c\>u
F.iiiily Alansfield, married John Gaiv Lvaiis.
toriuerly goverunr of South Carolina.
(XII) Frank Cameron. - ' ' ' " ;i
Plume, was born at Wati
1856. He married, July 7
drews, born in Waterbury, Septcml)cr 1 1 ,
18^2, daughter of General Stephen Wricrht
Kell.igg (see Kcll'>ug IX). He ^ !
in the public schools and bccan
with his father in busincs-
phen Kellogg, born at W:
1881, mentioned below; An-
at Thoina-ton, Julv n, 18144, ^'cd Occcnibcr
(XIII) Stephen Kellogg, son of T
Cameron Plume, was l>orn at Waterbur
16. 1881. He n""'- ' •:■ ' '• -
U'atertown, and
He became ass'
in the Plume & Atwoud Maniiia.
pany, and is now general man
Thomaston plant. His honi^
He is a director of the Tl !
Bank and of the Plume & . . -
luring Company. In politics he is an active
and infiucntial Republican. He is unmarried.
(TV) John Kellogg, son of
KELLOGG Lieutenant Joseph Kr"—
(q. v.). was baptized in
iuL'tc-in. December 20. 1656. and marr
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Hadley, Massachusetts, December 23, 1680,
Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Dem-
ing) Moody. She was born 1660, died in
Farmington, September 10, 1689. He mar-
ried (second) Ruth — ■ , who survived him,
and died after 1732. He Hved in Farmington
and Hadley, and succeeded to the ferry in the
latter town, which had been formerly operated
by his father. In 1720 his name appears in a
list of those owning the largest estates in Had-
ley. At that time his estate was valued at
one hundred and fourteen pounds sixteen shil-
lings. He lived at one time in the Hopkins
school house in Hadley. Children, of first
wife, born in Hadley : Sarah, May 2, 1682 ;
John, March 21, 1684, died March, 1691 ; Jos-
eph, November 6, 1685, mentioned below ;
Samuel, April i, 1687; son, born and died
September 9, 1689. Children of second
wife: Ruth, April 5, 1693, died November 15,
1705; Joanna, June 12, 1694; Esther, Feb-
ruary 17, 1696; Abigail, September 26, 1697;
John, October 26, 1699; James, July 10, 1701.
(V) Joseph, son of John Kellogg, was born
November 6, 1685, in Hadley, married, March
15, 171 1, Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer and
Abigail (Broughton) Smith, born July 11,
1688. He was a weaver by trade and lived
in South Hadley. Several years after his death
his son John was appointed administrator of
his estate. Children, born in South Hadley :
Abgail, December 8, 171 1; Sarah, January 8,
1714; Ebenezer, December 26, 1715; Ruth,
January 18, 1717; Martha, May 21. 1720:
Esther, September 19, 1722; Joseph, Decem-
ber 24, 1724; John, October 13, 1727; Rachel,
September 15, 1730; Jabez, February 11, 1734,
mentioned below; Eunice, December 4, 1736.
(VI) Jabez, son of Joseph Kellogg, was
born February 11, 1734. He was a private in
Captain Samuel Smith's company, which
marched from South Hadley to the relief of
Fort William Henry, August, 1757, served
thirteen days, travelled one hundred and eighty
miles; also in Captain Elijah .Smith's com-
pany. Colonel Israel ^Villianis' regiment, in
the expedition against Canada at Crown Point,
April 26 to December 7, 1759; furnished him-
self with arms. He served in the revolution.
Captain Kendricks' company. Colonel Lovell's
regiment, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1776,
as corporal ; Captain Chapin's company. Col-
onel Porter's regiment, September 24 to Octo-
ber 4, T777, sergeant; Captain Wait's com-
pany. Colonel Woodbridge's regiment, Ben-
nington Alarm, August, 1777, private. In
1875 he removed to Hanover, New Hampshire,
and died there, 1791. He married Abigail
Catlin, who died in Hanover, 1788. Children
born in South Hadley: Phineas, January 6,
1759; Enos, July 28, 1761 ; Jabez, April 22,
1763; Julian, September 27, 1765, mentioned
below; Noadiah, October 26, 1767; Joseph,
February 26, 1770; Abigail, March 20, 1772;
Erastus, October 27, 1774, died May 12, 1775;
Erastus, April 4, 1776; John, November 17,
1778; Rachel, July 23, 1781.
(VH) Julian, son of Jabez Kellogg, was
born in South Hadley, September 27, 1765,
married, February 14, 1788, Molly, daughter
of Lieutenant Jacob and Mary (Kellogg)
Pool. She was born February i, 1771. Her
father, Jacob Pool, was an officer in the revo-
lution, and died of smallpox in the early part
of the war. Her mother, Mary (Kellogg)
Pool, was the daughter of Stephen and Martha
(Wells) Kellogg, and was baptized July 30,
1753' i" Colchester, Connecticut. Martha
Wells was the daughter of Jonathan and Mary
(Newton) Wells, of Colchester. Her mother
married (second) Captain John Fellows, born
175 1, son of Deacon Samuel and Eunice
• Fellows, of Harvard, Massachusetts.
Her grandfather, Stephen Kellogg, was the
son of Jonathan, born December 25, 1679, in
Hadley; married, January 3, 1711, Ann,
daughter of James Newton, of Kingston,
Rhode Island, born April 13, 1692, in Col-
chester, died August 14, 1769. Her great-
grandfather, Jonathan Kellogg, was a son of
Lieutenant Joseph Kellogg. Julian Kellogg
was a blacksmith by trade, and when si.xteen
years of age, removed to Shelburne, where he
learned his trade of Major Nash. He was a
representative to the general court in 1808.
From the public prints of the day we read :
"His character was reputable and his life use-
ful. In his death the church lost a cordial
friend, and the town a valuable inhabitant."
He died in Shelburne, August 4, 1813 ; and his
wife in Bernardston, Massachusetts. Septem-
ber 7, 1833. Children, born in Shelburne:
Abigail, November 12, 1788; Polly, Decem-
ber ID, 1790; Jacob Pool, February 16, 1793;
Flam, July 14, 1795; Henry, April 26, 1797;
Julia, March 10, 1799; John, December 10,
1800 ; Rachel, April 14, 1802, died January
22, 1803 ; Samuel Otway, July 22, 1809, died
luly 12, 1810; ]\Iarv Abigail, August 24,
"i8i"i.
(VIII) Jacob Pool, son of Julian Kellogg,
was born February 16, 1793, in Shelburne,
married, October 20, 1820, Lucy Prescott,
daughter of Stephen, born May 24, 1764, and
Sarah (Prescott) Wright, born March 31,
1765. She was born August 4, 1795, in Ashby,
Massachusetts. He was a farmer by occupa-
tion and lived in Shelburne, where both he and
his wife died. He died October 6, 1843, his
wife, Ma^• 2S. 1882, aged eightv-seven. Chil-
> < 'A A i'.i 1 i< i
drcn : Stephen WVi^jlit, liorii April 5, if^jj,
mentioned below; Ai. I-'ehniary 15, 1S24;
John, January 6, 1826, servcil with distinction
in Mexican and civil wars, on General Sheri-
dan's staff as chief of commissary, with rank
of colonel; Sarah Prescott, Ixjrn September 1 1,
1829.
I IX I (ien. Stephen Wri^jht KelloKjj. son of
Jacob Pool Kellogg, was born April 3, 1822,
in Sholhurne. llis early life was spent on his
father's farm, where he worked in the sum-
mer until twenty years old. After he was six-
teen he taught school in the winter months, and
attended ,'m academy at Slu'Ihiinie Falls for a
>liort time. At the age of twenty he entered
Amherst College, where he remained for two
terms, then, at the beginning of the third term,
entered Vale. lie graduated from the latter
in 1846, with one of the three highest honors
of his class. In the fall of that year he hc-
lanie principal of an acadcTuy in Winchendon,
Massachusetts, but the following winter re-
turned to New Haven and entered tha ^'ale
l^w Schix)l. In June, 1848, he was admitted
to the New Haven bar, and immediately
opened an office in Xaugatuck. where he re-
mainerl until 1854. In that year he was elect-
ed judge of probate for the Watcrbiiry dis-
trict, which inclu<led Xaugatuck, and removed
to W'aterbury, where he has since had his law
office. In 185 1 he was clerk of the Connecti-
cut senate; 1853 a member of the senate fmm
the W'aterbury district, and in 1856 a member
of the h<iuse. In 1854 he was appointed by the
legislature judge of the New Haven county
court, and hekl the office of judge of probate
for seven years. From 1866-69 he was city
attorney, ar.d duriiv^ that lime secured the
first legislation for supplying the city with
water. From 1877 to 188^ he was apain city
attorney, and drew up a bill for the establish-
ment of a sewerage system for the city, pro-
curing its passage by the legislature. In i860
he was a delegate to the Republican national
convention, and a member of the committee in
that convention which drew up the "platform"
upon which Abraham Lincoln was first elected
president. He was also a delegate to the na-
tional conventions of 1868-76. and in the latter
chairman of the Connecticut delegation. In
the civil war. from 186.^ to iS6<i. he was col-
onel of the Sccoufl Regiment of the Connecti-
cut National Guard, and from 1866 to 1870.
bripadier-Lreneral. In i860 he was elected to
the forty-first congress and re-elected in 1871-
73, During his six years of senice in con-
gress he was a member of the oimmittees on
the judiciary, patent*, war claims and Pacific
railroads, and chairiuan of the committee on
civil service refomi in tb<' fnriv-tliird. He wa<;
thouglll I.. M, .„n: i.f tllr
the district ever had, w;'
fur the practical sid.- .:
organization of tin
has h«'en one ••f t! ■
gi'
->he
ment from i
himself to tli.
has never lost In^ initnsi in p
has frequently written arlirl.
upon fxilitical ami '
He marrieil, S'
daughter of Majui
8, 1782, and Sara
August 4. 1794. an
Justice Hosmer, ui .Mi.hilciwrtu. .^lit
ijorh March 11, 1829, in Muffalo. New V
Children, born in W'aterbury: "^^ ' ' '
September il, 1852, marrieil
Plume (see Plume XIH ; I.i:
ary 14, 1855; Frank \\'<
John Prescott, March .^ 1 . ■ 1
mer, March 14, 1864; Stephen \\ rij^lit, M
8, iS(^«.: t'harlev I'oi-le, April 27. I«'i8.
■ted
He
and
rcss
I.
■ia.
Mas
ork.
los-
irch
Thomas Brush, the immigrant an-
BRl'SH cestor, was born in Rngland
about 1610 and came to this
country before 1653, in which ve.qr hr i« ns
corded as owning a lot in S
county, I."ng Island. In !'•
a will in Southold and attcmU., .. ; ^s,, ,,.,<-
ing there in 1660. Octolx;r, i66n. it was agreed
that "Gudman Rnish" shall keep "the ordi-
nary." He was made a freeman of Connecti-
cut in 1664. In 1656 or 1657 he removed to
Huntington, long Island, havini; "sold his
home at Smithold to Thomas Mapcs. his wife
Rebecca assentintj." .About 1665 he with two
others was sent by the "Inh.ibitants of Hunt-
ington with an Indian called Cliickinoc to The
South Meadow" to find and fix the Iviundaries
of a piece of land bought from the Massa-
pague Indians. This land was South Neck,
and upon it was a marked tree which was to
serve as a witness to the bargain. The while
men met there some twenty Indians with their
sachem, who was at first very reluctant to
conclude the transaction. They finallv agreed
to point out the tree, however. Thomas Bru-ih
was ahead of the other white men. and went
past the said tree without noticing it. "Then
an Indian called him backc and shewed him."
He was one of the proprietors of Hunting-
ton in 1672. He was also chosen one of the
overseers of the town and finally constable.
He exercised his authority in the latter posi-
tion u lion fill- tr>\vn Fclirnary 21, 1670, "refuse
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to Repair the Fort" at New York because they
feh deprived of the liberties of EngHshmen.
His wife was Rebecca, daughter of John"
Conkling or Conclyne, who was said to have
come from Nottinghamshire, England. He
was received as an inhabitant of Salem, Mas-
sachusetts, September 14. 1640, and had four
acres of land allotted to him in 1649. He was
an active man, who "Identified himself with
ever}^ new enterprise with zeal and energy, and
soon became the cynosure of all the village."
He moved later to Southold, and about 1660
to Huntington, where he is numbered among
the founders of the town. He is believed to
have been born about 1600.
Thomas Brush died in 1675 and his son
Thomas administered upon his estate in 1677.
It was valued at 306 pounds, which was a very
fair sum for those times. Children : Thomas ;
Richard, mentioned below ; John, born about
1650, and Rebecca, married February 8, 1682,
Jeremiah Hobart or Hubbard.
(II) Richard, son of Thomas Brush, settled
on West Neck, on the south shore of Lloyd's
Harbor. This property remained in the pos-
session of his descendants until 1898. Like his
father, he was a town officer, a commissioner
to lay out lands and roads, and in 1683 one of
the seven trustees annually elected under the
new patent. He married Hannah or Joanna
Corey. Following a common practice of his
time he divided his real estate among his sons
during his life-time. In 1700, he gave a farm
to his son Thomas, with the consent of his
wife. In 1709 he gave Richard and Thomas
"meadows and uplands," and in 17 10 his son
Robert his home lot with other property in-
cluding one-half one hundred pound right of
commonage. Children : Richard ; Thomas ;
Robert, mentioned below, and Reuben, mar-
ried February 11, 1739.
(III) Robert, son of Richard Brush, was
born in 1685 and married. He was also a
town trustee, and when a new meeting house
was built was among the most liberal sub-
scribers, giving the sum of twenty pounds. He
was executor of the will of Jeremiah Hub-
bard Jr., his nephew, in 1730. He had four
sons, of whom Reuben married Ruth Woods,
February 11, 1739, and was a prominent citi-
zen ; and Jonathan, mentioned below.
(IV) Jonathan, son of Robert Brush, was
born and lived at Huntington, Long Island.
He married Elizabeth Smith. Among their
children was Joshua, mentioned below.
(V) Joshua, son of Jonathan Brush, was
born at Huntington and always lived there.
He married Margaret Ireland, of ^^'est Hills,
Long Island. Among their children was
Philip, mentioned below.
(VI) Philip, son of Joshua Brush, was born
at Huntington and lived in that town. He mar-
ried Ruth Brush, a distant relative. Among
their children was Jarvis, mentioned below.
(VII) Jarvis, son of Philip Brush, was bom
January 6, 1797, and died in 1883. He was
a merchant in Brooklyn until 1835, when he
retired from business and made his home at
Danbury, Connecticut, but in 1841 returned
to Brooklyn to live. He married Sarah
Keeler, born at Ridgefield, Fairfield county,
Connecticut, June, 1797, daughter of Timothy
and I.urany (DeForest) Keeler. Children:
Joseph Beale Brush, merchant in New York,
born September 2^, 1828, died Julv 23,
iSfig: Georf^e Jarvis, of whom further.
(VIII) George Jarvis, son of Jarvis Brush,
was born in Brooklyn, New York, December
15, 1831- He received his early education in
the schools of Danbury, Connecticut, where
his father moved in 1835, and in Brooklyn, to
which he returned in 1841. It was not, how-
ever, pntil 1846, when he was sent to a school
in West .Cornwall, Connecticut, that he had
an opportunity to pay any special attention to
science. This school was kept by Mr. Theo-
dore S. Gold, who was an enthusiastic stu-
dent of mineralogy, botany and of various
other departments of natural history, and he
not only gave instructions to his pupils in
these subjects but succeeded in inspiring them
with a taste for them. Although young Brush
was at this place only six months, he remained
long enough to acquire a fondness for natural
science, which in the end resulted in changing
his course in life. He intended to pursue a
business career, and, accordingly, on leaving
the school at West Cornwall entered, in the
latter part of 1846, the counting-house of a
merchant in Maiden Lane, New York City.
There he remained for nearly two years, but
the taste for scientific study already acquired
did not desert him, and in particular he took
advantage of every opportunity that came in
his way to go off upon mineralosjical excur-
sions. A severe illness that befell him in 1848
rendered it necessary that he should abandon
the mercantile profession and it was decided
that he should take up in its place the life of
a farmer.
Just about this time Professor John P. Nor-
ton returned from England and Holland, and
in conjunction with Professor Silliman Jr.,
opened at Yale College a laboratory^ for the
purpose of practical instructon in the applica-
tions of science to the arts and to agriculture.
At the same time he began a course of lec-
tures on agriculture and agricultural chemis-
try. To attend these lectures, to fit himself
as thoroughly as possible for the life of a
ei i.XNLl 111 L 1
^*f)
farmer, I'rofcssor lirnsli, not as yet seventeen
years old. repaired to Xew Haven in October,
i8^8. This event clianjjcd his career. He
came to attend a single course of lectures on
afjricultiire. lie remained two years as a stu-
dent of chemistry and mineralogy. In Oc-
tober, 1850, he went to Louisville, Kentucky,
as assistant to I'icnjamin Silliman Jr., who had
been elected Professor of Chemistry in the
university of that city. There he remained
the following winter, and in March. 1851.
made one of the )iarly who accompanied the
elder Silliman on a somewhat extended tour
in Europe. Returning to Louisville in the au-
tumn of that year he continued acting in his
old capacity until the spring of 185J, when he
returned to New Haven. .At the time he was
student, no dei;rees were granted by the col-
lege merely for pn.tieicncy in science. There
was a general feeling that the pursuit of it,
like the ]iur-;uit of virtue, was its own reward.
I'.ut throu h the exertions of Prof. Norton
the corporation of the college voted to create
the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy and to
grant it to those of the old students in the de-
partment of science who would come back and
pass a satisfactory examination, .\ccordingly,
Mr. Urush returned, and after undergoing ex-
amination received, with five others, at the
commencement of 1852 the degree of Ph. B.,
thi- tir-t time it \\as given by the c>lle.:e.
The acatlemic year 1832-5,^ was now spent
by him at the University of Virginia, where
he was employed as assistant in the chemical
department. Here he was associated with
Professor J. I^nwrence Smith in a series of
special studies, the object of which was to re-
examine a number of American minerals
which had been described as new species. The
results of their joint investigations were pub-
lished in the fifteenth and sixteenth volumes
of the American Journal of Scu'iicc. second
series. At the end of the academic year Pro-
fessor Brush w cnt to New York, where he was
associated with Professor Silliman Jr.. in
charge of the mining and mineral department
of the I'niversal Exposition held that year in
the city. But he now began to feel tlie neces-
sity of pursuing his studies to an extent which
he was ni't able to do in this country, especially
at that time. .Vccordingly. in 1853 he sailed
for Europe, and during one year at the L'ni-
versity of Munich devoted himself to chemistry
and mineralogy- under Liebig. \'on Kobcll and
Pettcnkofcr. The year following — that of
1834-53 — he spent at the Royal Mining .Acad-
emy in Freiberg. Saxony.
just about this time an effort was Iwing
made at New Haven to put the scientific
department of Yale College in a more
satisfactory |iosition than it li 1 1 f»r.\i.,iislv
held. To building it up 1'
hafi sacrificed time and 1
last his life; and after tl
taincd in his earlv death it 1
tinned to ex' • • ■' ■ •' •■ •
of a very sii
it might at .r
out of being and llic
academir world wnnbl ii
of it <
ence i
a |)osii; ,
education, that it :
how low wa< til.
held in this •
ago. The .1
lege nrr '
the n:.
held in
reputation, in tar'
of most of tbe-r ■
Still, .so str.
tr.Hliii, ,- 1!,
reflected tin
very little tli
to have even
in the future. The >iii.iciii
not learn L.Ttin and r,r<'<-k. I
the case he I. ' '
respect f< ir 1
of his respLw
degree of his ignoranc
in the cri'r of the nnt'-
the e
in the
then till ir
termed the
munity of I
share, which renders 11
of them to he nndnlv .'
ingsomeiu! ' " ■ i:i' n tin 'h \(:'i:ii< iit
of all the r.
Still the . '■■• "■•^'••" '■■•
than had !•<
and in a fi<
prepare for what tlie
to see was the inevital'
where else, and an in*-!
what imf-^inc r^nn^(•
Scho.
then I
that, ii.iM u.i ,.
voted. But in op
a service to the r;
ated. greater than
any pecuniary
■I'tn rent
.It lav i
e.l by
their
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power. At the commencement of 1855 they
elected Mr. Brush to a professor.ship.
He was first offered the chair of mining and
metallurgy, but this he declined as embracing
too much and the title was limited to that of
metallurgy alone. This, several years after,
was exchanged for that of mineralogy. To
qualify himself still further for the position,
the newly-elected Professor went in the au-
tumn of 1855 to London, where he pursued
his studies in the Royal School of Mines. The
following year he made an extended tour
through the mines and smelting works of Eng-
land, Scotland, Wales, Belgium. Germany and
Austria. In December, 1856. he returned to
this country, and in January, 1857, he entered
upon the duties of his professorship.
From this time on the history of Professor
Brush has been the history of the special sci-
entific department of Yale College, which in
1861, owing to the liberal benefactions of Mr.
Joseph E. Sheffield, received the name of Shef-
field Scientific School. He came to it while it
was not only without reputation, but without
appreciation or expectation. He came to it
while it was poor beyond even that decent pov-
erty which apparently belongs, in the nature of
things, to institutions of learning, while it was
in a state so unorganized that as a whole it
could hardly be said to have a being at all.
It exhibited, indeed, a good deal of life in the
college catalogue but beyond that its vitality
did not extend. There was vigor enough in
certain of its departments, especially in that of
civil engineering, under the charge of Profes-
sor William A. Norton, but in such cases it
was a vigor due to the energy of the individual
instructor and therefore almost certain to dis-
appear whenever he disappeared. To bring
these scattered units into an organic whole, to
build up a complete and consistent scheme of
scientific education, which should have both
definite and lofty aims, which should train men
thoroughly in scientific methods, and which
should continue to exist by its own inherent
vitality after the men who established it should
have passed away — all this became by degrees
the main work of Professor Brush's life. His
energy, his judgment, his executive capacity
and his devotion soon gave him the leading di-
rection in the affairs of the institution. He
was for a long period its secretary ; he has al-
ways been its treasurer, and when, in 1872, a
more formal organization of its faculty was
felt to be desirable, he was elected as its presid-
ing officer, a position which he re-
tained until his retirement in 1898. Others
have done their part toward developing
various departments of the school, but its
growth, as a whole, and the position which it
has acquired among scientific institutions,
whatever that position may be, has been due
to him very much more than to any other one
man connected with it. None are more willing
to admit this than the colleagues who have co-
operated with him, and it is a gratification for
them to have an opportunity of saying here,
without his knowledge, what would never be
suffered to be printed were it submitted to his
inspection.
Nor has Professor Brush been idle in his
special work, in spite of the exhausting de-
mands made upon his time and thought by
the management of the Sheffield Scientific
School. The series of investigations made
by him on American minerals, in con-
junction with Professor J. Lawrence Smith,
have already been mentioned. He co-
operated with Professor Dana in the
preparation of the fifth edition of his
treatise on "Descriptive Mineralogy" published
in 186S. and an account of his special
services in connection with tliat will be found
stated in the author's preface. To the two
editions preceding, as well as to this one, he
contributed analyses of minerals. He also
edited the eighth, ninth and tenth supplements
to the fourth edition, as well as the appendix
to the fifth, published in 1872. In 1875 he
brought out also a "Manual of Determinative
Mineralogy and Blowpipe Analysis." In ad-
dition to these he has been a constant con-
tributor to the American Joiiriia! of Science,
as will he seen by the following list
of articles furnished by him to that
periodical, second series, "Analyses of
American Spoduirene ;" "On the Chemical
Composition of Clitonite fSeybertite) ;" "On a
New Test for Zirconia ;" "On Prosopite :" "On
the Chemical Composition of Antigorite;" "On
Dechenite and Eusynchite ;" "Note on Para-
thorite;" "Chemical Composition of Chalco-
dite ;" "Analyses of Gieseckite ( ?) from Diana,
Compact Pyrophillite, LTnionite, Danbury Feld-
spar;" "Chemical Examination of Boltonite ;"
"On Crystalline Hydrate of Magnesia ;" "On
Amblygonite from Maine;" "On Tfiphylins
from Norwich, Massachusetts ;" "On Children-
ite from Hebron, Maine ;" "On the Tucson
Meteoric Iron ;" "On Tephroite ;" "On Arti-
ficial Diopside ;" "On Cookeite and Jefferis-
ite ;" "On Native Hydrates of Iron ;" "On Sus-
sexite ;" "On Hortonolite :" "On Durangite ;"
"On a Meteoric Stone from Frankfort, Ala-
bama ;" "On Magmetite in the Pennsville
Mica." Third Series : "On Gahnite from New
Jersey ;" "On Ralstonite ;" "On Compact An-
glesite ;" "On Durangite ;" "On American
Sulphoselenides of Mercury."
In 1878 a new and remarkable mineral lo-
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cality at Braiiclnillc, Fairfield county. Con-
necticut, was discovered, and in connection
witli Professor Edward S. Dana, Professor
Brush produced a series of papers in the
.hncriiun Jmiiiuil of Siiciuc. I third series,
vol. XV, pp. 398, 481 ; vol. X\'I, pp. ■^7,. 114;
vol. XVII, p. 359; vol. X\III. p. 45. and vol.
.XL'''. |>. .?iii). and in tluin arc <lc--crilitd the
new phosphates — Kosphoritc, Triploidite, Dic-
kinsiinitc, Lith'iphilitc. Rcddingitc, Fairfielditc
and I*"illowitc. In conjunction also with Pro-
fessor E. S. Dana he contributed to the same
journal a memoir on "Spudumenc and Its .Al-
terations" (XX, 257). and a paper on "Cry-
stallized Danburite from Russell. Xew York"
(XXI).
In 1862 Professor Pirush was a correspond-
inj,' member of the Royal P>avarian .Academy
of .*>cicnci's : in 1866 a member of the Imperial
Mincraliifjical Society of St. Petcrsburj;, and
in 187- a foreign correspondent of the Geo-
logical Society of London. 1 le is also a mem-
ber of the .American Philisophical Society, of
the Xational .Academy of Sciences, and of
various other scientific bodies in this country.
In 1880. at the meeting of the .American Asso-
ciation for the .Advancement of Science held
at Boston, he was elected its president for the
following year, and in that capacity presided
over the meeting held in .August. 1881, at Cin-
cinnati. He was director of the SbetTield Sci-
entific .School from 1872 to i8t)8 and recciveil
the lic'jree of 1.1.. I ). from Harvard in iS8(i.
-Alter his retireu'ent in iSi>8 he w;is made
professor emeritus of mineralogy in Vale I'ni-
versitv. He is still jTesident of the board of
trustees of the SbetTield Scientific .School, and
al-o one of the trustees of tiie Pcabody
Museum nS Y;\\v I'niversity.
He married, in i8<)4. Harriet Silliman,
daughter of John Trumbull, who was the
grandson of the first Governor of Connecticut.
Children,; i. Sarah, married Professor Ed-
ward Thompkins Mcl^iughlin, professor of
English at S'ale College. 2. Eliza, married
Louis G. Pirsson, professor, a graduate of
Yale College. .'Sheffield Scientific School. 3.
Bertha, married Rev. Edward L. Parson, of
South i'.erkelev, California: three children.
Thomas Barbour or Barber,
B.ARBOl'R the immigrant ancestor, came
to Xew Englan'l in the ship,
"Christian," March i6, 1634. He settled in
Windsor. Connecticut, in 1635, at the age of
twenty-one, with the Saltonstall party, under
Francis Stiles. He was a soldier in the I'e-
quot fight. He married. October 7, 1640. Jane
, who died ."September 10, i'i62. He died
September 11, 1662. Children: i. John, bap-
tized July 24. 1642: married lflr^l 1 r;.iihslul);i
Coggins; (second) Widow II
2. Thomas, sec forward, t,
July 19, 1^146; married I '-■ .un-
uel, baptized October i, rst)
Mary ' V
Mercy. ricd
(first) 1 ton.
6. Josiab, liorii l-cbruary 5, 1033-54, married
(first) .Abigail LtK.mis; (second) .Sarah (Por-
ter) Drake.
(II) Lieutenant Thomas (2) Barber, son of
Thomas ( 1 ) and Jane Barlicr, was Iwrn July
14, i''>44, died May 10, 1713. He removed to
Simsbury, and was a carpenter by trade, build-
ing the first meeting house there. lie mar-
ried. December 17, i'''>3, .Mary, who ilied in
U18-. dau' hter it| William and .Mar> ( l>.ivcr)
Phelps, the immigrants. Cliildrcn : John,
bom Xovembcr i. 1664. married Mary Hol-
comb; Mary, born January 11. 1666; Sarah,
boni July 12. 1669, married .Andrew Robe;
loanna, born KC). married 1 lir^t 1 lo^iah .\i|-
kins. (second) Benjamin Colt; Thomas, l>om
October 7. 1671, married Abigail Buell; Sam-
uel, see forward; .Ann, married Jonathan
Higley.
(HI) .Sanuiei. son of Lieutenant Thomas
(2) and Mary (Phelps) Barl>er. was Ixirn
May 17, i''>73. died December i8. 1725. He
married, December 17. 1712, Sarah jlolcomb,
born 16(71. died 1787. aged ninety-six. •laugh-
ter of Xathaniel and Mary ( I'.li-- 1 Holcomb.
She removed from the old parish to West
Simsbury in 1738 with her four sons, Samuel,
Thomas, Jonathan and John, and daughters,
Mercv and Sarah, the sons settling on the l>cst
land in the "centre school district." They
were among the earliest and most prominent
settlers of West Simsbury. Children: i. Sam-
uel, liorn 1714: married (first) Tryphcna
Humphrey: (second) Hannah (Humi.hrcy)
Case. 2. Thomas. l)orn ijjf>: married Eliza-
Ixrth .Adams. 3. Jonath.in, bom 1717; mar-
rieil Jemima Cornish. 4. John, see forward.
5. Sarah, born .April i, 1722; married John
Case. 6. Mercy, married Ephraim Buell, Jr.
(IV) John, son of Samuel and Sarah (Hol-
comb) Barber, was born December 4. 1719,
died December jy. 17<)7. He married, Jan-
uary 22. i74'>-47. Lvdia '•' ■' - '- " - '"■'^•'
XovemlK-r 18, i72<>. <l
a daughter of Jacob
Reed. Children: Lydia, U»rii December 26.
1747, marrie<l Samuel Olcott; John, see for-
wanl: Renlien, Ixim Decemlier 7, 1751. mar-
ried Elizabeth Case: Sarah. Ixim July i, 1754.
died .April 15, 1761 : Rho<la. Ixim .April 25.
1756. died June 1. 1761 ; Benjamin, bora
March 3. 1760. married Lydia Case; Jona-
COXXECTICL'T
than, born 1763, married Abi ^lerrell ; /\bel,
born 1765, married Chloe Case.
(V) John (2), son of John (i) and Lydia
(Reed) Barber, was born November 29, 1749,
died November .3, 1825. He married, in 1773,
EHzabeth Case, born April 20, 1752, died May
26, 1817, daughter of Captain Josiah and
Esther (Higley) Case: Children: Infant, born
1774, died same year; Elizabeth, born March
27, 1775, married Roswell Barber; Rhoda,
born 1777, married Gurdon Hurlbut; Cyntha,
born i\larch 1 1, 1773, married Chauncey Sadd ;
John, see forward; Abi, born March 4, 1784,
married (first) Elisha Case, (second) John
Brown; Sylvia, born 1785, died 1786; Sylvia,
born 1787, married Dan Case; Luke, born
iybij. married (first) Clara Foote, (second)
Lavinia Hosmer; Austin, born 1792, married
Lucy Allen.
(VI) John (3) Barbour, as the name is now
spelled, son of John (2) and Elizabeth (Case)
Barber, was born February 18, 1783, died No-
vember 24, 1865. He married (first) October
13, 1803, Delight Griswold Case, born October
15, 1783, died April 13, 1811, daughter of
Elisha and Delight (Griswold) Case. j\Iar-
ried (second), June 15, 1812, Fanny Hunt,
born August 30, 1792, died November 6. 1858,
daughter of George and Jemima (Hollister)
Hunt. Children of first wife:,i. Lucius, born
July 26. 1805 ; see forward. 2. Eveline G.,
born July 22, 1807; married Abel G. Buell.
3. Edwin .Case, born May 26, 1810; married
(first) Harriet Newel Hinman ; (second) Wi-
dow Ann ^laria Hinkley. Children of second
wife: 4. Selden, born October 5, 1813, died
April 20, 1814. 5. Fanny Maria, born Febru-
ary 7, 1815; married Lawrence S. Parker. 6.
Fidelia Gates, born March 16, 1817; married
George C. Baldwin. 7. Herschell, born April
I, 1819, died April 22. 1819. 8. Theodore
Dwight, born June 28, 1820; married Angeline
Dodge. 9. Silvia, born January 28, 1822, died
February 12, 1822. 10. Goodrich Hollister,
born June 28, 1824 ; married Harriet C. Ward.
II. John Newton, born June 22, 1828; married
Electa Houghton. 12. Theron Laselle, born
February 20, 1832, died July 21, 1864, unmar-
ried. 13. Juliet Louise, born September 28,
1834: married (fir.st) George Davis; (sec-
ond) Hiram Peck; (third) Noel Mattison.
(VII) Lucius (2), son of John and
Delight Griswold (Case) Barbour, was
born July 26, 1805, in Canton. Connecti-
cut, died February 10, 1873. When about
fourteen years old he went with his
parents to western New York. For a num-
ber of years he traveled in the south and
west, where he was en'^a'^ed in business and
investing in western lands, especially in Indi-
ana. He finally settled in Madison, Indiana,
and engaged in the wholesale dry goods busi-
ness. Afterwards he became interested in the
same line'in Cincinnati, Ohio. About 1845 he
removed to Hartford. Connecticut, where he
afterward lived, although he kept his business
interests in the west. He possessed excellent
business habits and ability and his efforts met
with success. He was greatly esteemed by all
who knew him. He was deacon of the Second
Congregational Church of Hartford from 1858
to 1865, and in the First Congregational
Church from 1869 until his death. He was a
trustee of the Hartford Theological Seminary,
a director of the American Asylum for the
Deaf and Dumb, and of the Charter Oak Bank.
He married, April 23, 1840, Harriet Louise
Day, born February 2. 1821, died September
26, 1886, daughter of Deacon Albert and Har-
riet (Chapin) Dav (see Day VII !. Children:
Harriet Louise, born June 22, 1843, died No-
vember 7, 1848; Lucius Albert, see forward;
Mary Adelia, born February 23, 1851, died
March 6, 1851; Hattie Day, born July 18,
i860, married Richard Storrs Barnes.
(VIII) Lucius Albert Barbour, son of Lu-
cius and Harriet Louise (Day) Barbour, was
born January 26. i8-|6, at ]\iadison, Indiana,
and came when young with his parents to
Hartford, Connecticut. He attended the public
schools and graduated from the high school in
1864. Later he became teller in the Charter
Oak Bank, resigning in 1870 to make an ex-
tended tour of Europe. He enlisted Septem-
ber 9, 1865, in the Flartford City Guard, then
attached to the First Regiment as Battery D.
His military advancements were rapid, receiv-
ing wide notice in the state. He was by na-
ture a leader, well fitted for military honors.
He resigned from the Guard in 1871. but re-
turned some years later, and in February,
1875, was chosen major of the First Regiment.
He was elected lieutenant-colonel, December
28, 1876, and was advanced to the command
of the regiment, June 26, 1878. Colonel Bar-
bour was in command of the First Regiment
at the Yorktown Centennial in i88t, and won
a national reputation by the splendid efficiency
and discipline which his organization dis-
played. In this connection the command vis-
ited Charleston, South Carolina, and gained
the highest military praise. Archibald Forbes,
the celebrated London war correspondent, paid
a high tribute to Colonel Barbour's command.
Colonel Barbour was one of the most popular
officers connected with the National Guard and
his selection later as adjutant-general of the
state met with popular approval throughout
the state. He resigned as colonel. November
12, 1884. In politics he is a Republican, and
'{/UH-vl^J i//, (^^Jathi^v:
was a member of tlic Ivmso of representatives
in 1879, and proved an efficient member of
that liody. He was prominently identified
with "Battle Flap Day," being a nieinlK-r of
the ietcislativc committee wlncit had ciiar^-e <>f
the arrani^enients. As a distinguished repre-
• ntMtivc of the .National Ciiiard, he is honored
throiij^hout Connecticut, lie was for many
years president and treasurer of the Williman-
tic Linen Company, of Willimantir. and ha<:
the reputation of beinf,' an ah"
aper. He is president nf the '
tional liank- of Hartford, lie
e I-irst Contircpational Church ol llartlord.
He married. February 8, 1877. at I'.rooklyn,
'ew York. Harriet E. Barnes, born December
1S40. diei' \ii\en'''cr S. iSijij. ilaughter of
Alfred Smith and Harriet F.lizal)cth (Burr)
r..irncs. Hir father was the ftiundcr of the
publishing house of .A. S. I'arncs & Company
f New York City. Children: i. Lucius
i ;,irnes, born February 1. 187S; married Char-
1 'Ue Cordelia Hilliard; children: Lucius Hil-
liard, born .April 5, 1903; .Alice Cordelia. lx>rn
April 30, 1907. 2. Harriet Burr, born July 22.
1 S7C) ; married George Alexander Phelps.
Robert Day, immigrant ancestor,
n.\Y came to New England in the ship,
"Elizabeth." from Ipswich, Eng-
iid. to Boston. He was bom about 1604.
' ith him came his wife Mary, aged twenty-
-:ht. He settled first in Cambridge, and was
■iniitted a frecninn. May 6. 1635. He re-
moved to Hartford. Connecticut, where he
was living as early as 1639 and was one of
the first settlers there. He niarricd (second")
Editha Stehbins. sister of Deacon F.dwar<l
Stebbins. He died in Hartford in 1648. aged
forty- four. His widow married (second)
Deacon John Maynard; married (third) in
1638. Elizur Holyokc. of Springfield, and died
there October 24. if>88. Children: i. Thomas.
see forward. 2. John, married Sarah Butler.
3. .^arah. married (first) Nathaniel Gunn ;
(second) .'^amuel Kellogg. 4. .Mary, married
(first) .Samuel Ely; (second) Thomas Steb-
bins; (third) John Coleman.
( H) Thomas, son of Robert Day. married,
tober 27. 1650. Sarah, daughter of Lieuten-
.,11 1 Thomas Cooper, who was killed when
Springfield was burned by the Indians. He
died in Springfield. Decemlicr 27. 171 1. His
will was dated May 20. 171 1. and proved
March 23, 1712. His widow died November
21. 172^. Children: !. Thomas, born March
2^. i(V')2; married Elizabeth Merrick. 2.
Sarah, bom Jime 14. 1664; married John Burt.
3. Mary, bom December 13. i6fi6; married
John Merrick. 4. John, bom February 20.
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(.\l;ir.-h» l\cii!. 7. LLeiitzti. {...rii 1 ii*ru-
18. 1676. died June 12. 1676. 8. Elx-nczcr.
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bletoii. Cliil.litn; S,
lf)o8, married Mai' .<•
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March 19. 17'
gail, bon
Woodbii
married 1 m -i 1 .^v mi . i-
sannali Stanley.
(I\ ) Josi.ah. son "f -
(Diunbleton) Day,
died January 13. i~
February 23. 1731.
marv 11. 1704. dii
thir'- •"•■ 1 '■• ■•
(II
ceni
sided at West Spriiigikld. C 1
bom Januar\- 7. 1732. died Ian
Gideon, sec forward ■ ' • ' -^
31, 1736, married 1.
born June 2. 1738. :
(V) Gideon, son of josiah and i
(Bliss) Day. was bom September
He resided several years in W'l
and afterwards removed to \V(
chusctt*. Hen "■ ' '' '
abcth Duncan.
(Ingham) Dni'
October 23, I7<»3; married I'olly Carew. -'.
Jemima. Ix^m September 24. i"'*': marru-d
Peter Rose. 3. \mbn>'-e. <;»< j.
Asenath. Iiorn l^ebntarv jj. 177
ricd. 3. Electa, born Jtily 13. ;,, , cd
Gains Searle«. '>. Martin. lv>rn .March 22.
1777; married Mary Noble. 7. Calvin, l>om
March 19. 1779: married Polly Famhani. 8,
Gideon Bliss. Ix)rn Fcbmar>- 8, 1781, died
young.
(\'I") Ambrose, son of Gideon and Eliza-
beth (Duncan) Day. was l>orn V.:]\ - irfij.
He resi'Icd in Wcsffield. He ni.i ;.
1791. Mary ( Polly 1 Ely. who . ,ty
704
CONNECTICUT
27, 1839, aged sixty-nine. Children : Ambrose,
born February 9, 1792,* married Sarah Spen-
cer; Robert, born December 18, 1794; Albert,
see forward; Mary, born October 26, 1801,
married Alfred Topliff; Calvin, born Febru-
ary 26, 1803, married Catharine Seymour;
Horatio Ely, born June 18, 1814, married
Adelia Burt.
(VII) Albert, son of Ambrose and Mary
(Ely) Day, was born November 29, 1797. He
resided in Hartford, Connecticut, where he
was a prominent man. He was a member of
the firm of A. & C. Day & Day, Griswold &
Company. He was lieutenant-governor of
Connecticut, 1856-57. He married, November
II, 1819, Harriet Chapin, of Chicopee, daugh-
ter of Frederick and Roxalany (Lamb) Cha-
pin. Children : Harriet Louise, born February
2. 1821, married Lucius ISarbour (see Bar-
bour Vn ) ; Albert Frederick, born July 19,
1824, married (first) Annie W. Bulkley, (sec-
ond ) Caroline Ballard : Charles Gustavus,
born .April 19, 1829, married Sarah F. Davis.
This, the Norwich branch of
GREENE the Greene family, comes from
the Boston branch of the Rhode
Island family, descended from John Greene,
of Warwick, of that state. John Greene was
descended from the family of Greene of
Greene's Norton, Northamptonshire, England,
which flourished in that county from 1319 un-
til the time of Henry VIII. Sir Flenry
Greene Knt., lord chief justice of England in
1353, was the head of this family in his time.
His younger son, Sir Henry Greene, was be-
headed in 1399 for his attachment to the cause
of Richard II. Queen Catl>erine Parr was
a member of this family, her mother being
Matilda Greene, daughter and co-heiress ot
Sir Thomas Greene, of Greene's Norton. By
the marriage of Matilda Greene and her sis-
ter Anne, respectively, to Sir Thomas Parr
and Baron Vaux, the Northampton estate
passed into other families.
A branch of this family, from which the
American Greenes are descended, owned and
occupied the estate of Bowridge Flill, in (lil-
lingham parish, in Dorsetshire, in the reign
of Henry VIII., and so continued until 1635
and after. Many records of births, marriages
and deaths of the family appear in the par-
ish records, and various curious wills of theirs
are e.xtant. Their old stone house is still
standing. The John Greene, of Warwick,
Rhode Island, referred to in the foregoing,
and who is treated in what follows, was a
younger brother of the owner of Bowridge
Hill, at the time of his emigration to the
American colonies in i(>^S- From this source
came the Greenes under consideration, and
their lineage from the American ancestor fol-
lows, each generation being designated by a
Roman character.
(I) John Greene, of Salisbury, county Wilts,
England, sailed from Southampton, England,
in the ship "James" to Boston, in 1635, bring-
ing with him his family. J\Ir. Greene was
probably born at Bowridge Flill, Gillingham,
Dorset, where his father, Richard (2), and
grandfather, Richard (i) Greene, resided,
riis great-grandfather was Robert Greene, of
Bowridge Hill. He was of Salem, Massa-
chusetts, for a short period, and of Providence
in 1637. He was one of the twelve persons to
whom Roger Williams deeded land bouglit of
Canonicus and Miantonomo, in 1638. He was
one of the twelve original members of the
First Baptist Church. In 1643 he and others
purchased a tract of land now called \\'ar-
wick. He was commissioner during 1654-57;
was made a freeman in 1655. John Greene
was a surgeon in Salisbury, and there made
his first marriage at St. Thomas Church. This
was on November 4, 1619, and to Joan Tat-
tersall. His children and the dates of their
baptism were: John, August 15, 1620; Peter,
March 10, 1622; Richard, March 25, 1623;
James, June 21, 1626; Thomas, June 4, 1628;
Joan, October 3, 1630; Mary, May 19, 1633.
He married (second) Alice Daniels, a widow;
married (third)- Phillipa . His death
occurred in 1658. Some of the conspicuous
descendants of John Greene, of Warwick,
Rhode Island, have been General Nathaniel
Greene, of revolutionary fame ; John, deputy
governor of the colony ; William, lieutenant-
governor and governor of the colony : Wil-
liam (2), chief justice and governor of Rhode
Island ; Ray Greene, United States senator ;
and the latter's son, William, lieutenant-gov-
ernor, and graduate of Brown LTniversity : and
General George S. Greene.
(II) Thomas, son of John Greene, born
June 4, 1628, married, June 30, 1659, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Rufus and ^largaret Bar-
ton. Mr. Greene was a freeman in 1655 ; com-
missioner in 1662; deputy in 1667-69-70-71-
72-74-78-81-83-84; ancl assistant in 1678-79-
80-84-85. He died June 5, 1717. Children:
Elizabeth, born July 12, 1660; Thomas, Au-
gust 4, 1662; Benjamin, January 10, 1666;
Richard, March 5, 1667: Welthian, January
23, 1670; Rufus. January 6, 1673; Nathaniel,
mentioned below.
(III) Nathaniel, son of Thomas Greene,
born April 10, 1679, married, February 27,
1703, Anne, daughter of Thomas and Frances
Gould, of Boston. Mr. Greene removed to
Boston where he was engaged in mercantile
I t ).\MJ.1ILL T
70s
].ur-iiit-. riicir thililrfii, wlm-c births arc
recorded in Warwick, were: Riifiis, Imrn May
30, 1707; Natlumiel, l)<»rn NFay 14, 1709, "at
Boston." Mr. (ireene lived and died in Bos-
ton, leaving Thomas, Nathaniel, Rufus, I'.cn-
i.iinin ancl William.
(1\ ) llenjamin, son of Nathaniel Greene,
il-o resided in ISoston, and was there en-
'.tgcd as a merchant.
(\) Gardiner, son of Benjamin Greene,
was the merchant jirincc of Boston .and one of
the foremost men of New F.nijland of his
time. Ixith in business and social life. The
I'iillnwiii):; e.xtracts concerning; him, his fam-
i.tmil\ and estate are from "The Memorial
History of Boston" (1881). His house stood
on the site of the new court house. Pember-
• >n S(|iiarc. and his estate was the most fa-
in )iis in lloston. .A view of the house is in
liie mayf>r's ofTice at the City Hall. The build-
ing was of wood, three stories in heitjht, four
larpc rooms on each tlo<jr. with an L. The
woodwork of the drawinij room was elalro-
rately carved, and in this respect it differed
trum the Faneuil house, which had plainer
orn;imentation. Mr. Greene had resided in
Hemerara for many years after 1774, and had
laii! there the foundation of a lar<ic fortune.
In 1775 he married Miss Ann Reading, who
I lied in 17S6. Two years later he visited Bos-
ton, and married Rlizabcth. danijhter of Dan-
iel Hubbard, who died in 1707. In July. 1800.
while in London, he married Klizabetli Clarke,
danijhtcr of I'opley the painter, and si>in took
lip his permanent residence in Boston, and
iiere died December 10. 1832.
The most cons|iicuous, extensive and ele-
•_;ant garden in the early part of the nineteenth
century was that of Gardiner Greene, who
also had one of the early greenhouses in Bos-
ton. The grouiuls were terraced, and planted
with vines, fruits, ornamental trees, flower-
ing shrubs and plants, and were, sixty-five
>cars ago. says the author of the "Memorial
History of I>oston," a scene of beauty and
enchantment which I shall never forget. Here
were i^irowing in the open air, lilack Hamburg
and White Chasselas grapes, apricots, necta-
rines, peaches, |icars anrl plums in perfection,
presenting a scene which made a deep impres-
■^ion on my mind, and which gave me -iome
of those strong incentives that governed me
in the cultivation of fruits and flowers. Here
were many ornamental trees brought from
foreign lands: one of which, the "Salishuria
adianti folia." the Jajtan Ginko tree, was re-
moved throtiijh the personal efforts of the late
Dr. Jacob Piigelow. and planted on the upper
mall of the coMunon. where it now stands.
( \T I William Parkinson, son of Gardiner
sa- the
(Hub-
•-05-
Greene, \\.i- i.ue ■ i -n..iaiiii ! *' ' .'.il-
kins' "History of Ni>rwich" 1 vrs
the following notice of .\Ir. (>• .is
mayor of the city in 1842: "M .is
a native of P.oston, bu? .in tnh 1'
wich for more than
second son of Gan!
bavi ■ '■
H. Md
aft. ng
equal lu the re<tuiieinini:. ul (he Ic^iil pro-
fession, he remove<l in 1824 to N'nrwirh, and
engaged at once in 1 ind
agent of the Thai m-
pany, which had in ^ , . ..! in
the purchase of mill privileges ai the Falls.
In this city he soon acqittm! nnd retained
during life the esteem an. the com-
nuinity. He was an 1 ! large-
hearted man; literary in ' ■ vith
profound sagacity in fm ess
concerns. These qualitu vith
a pure life and an entire absence of ustcnta-
tion. .As a beautiful result of his unobtru-
sive life and liberal dis|»sition. he sccme<I to
have no enemies. Slander never made him
its mark, and his name was n<' •■■ t,,,.,,t,,,„c(j
with disrespect. He was ne\' of
robust health, and therefore - ■ to
give his personal services in ai<i of public
measures, but all charitable and noble un-
dertakings having for th. ■- ' " ' e welfare
of man and the honor sure of
his liberal aid and cordia' , In 1825
he was chosen the president 01 tiic Thames
Bank, and held the office for sixteen years.
With this exception, anrl that of the single
year in which he was mayor of the city, he
steadfastly declined, on account of his health,
all appointments to public office. He died
June 18. i8r>4, aged sixty-eight. Seldom had
the death of a citizen excited in the place so
deep an interest and such profound regret. It
was a loss that wa^ felt in the circles of busi-
ness and of public improvement ; in the de-
partments of education and philanthropy."
Mr. Greene was one of the incorporators
of the Norwich Free .\cadeniy in 1854. He
was the second president of the Iward of trus-
tees of that in^^titution, serving from 1857
until his death in i8/>4. His ■ ' ■■ '^yg,
gave to the academy a house .r for
the use of the principal. .\t v.r the
gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Greene to the acad-
emy amounted to $40,000. .After Mr. Greene's
removal to Norwich in the early twenties, he
was wholly identified with the place, and by
his enterprise and liberal and enlightened
course as a citizen, contributed largely to its
prosperity. He was one of the founders of
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the Thames Manufacturing Company in 1823.
The company purcliased the mill of the Quine-
baug Compan}', which in 1826 built a mill on
the Shetucket river for the manufacture of
■cotton and woollen goods, before it went into
operation. The Thames Company likewise
purchased the mill at Bozrahville, and in its
best days had the three large mills in success-
ful operation. Two new companies were
formed and went into operation between 1838
and 1842, under the auspices of Mr. Greene
— the Shetucket Company and the Norwich
Falls Company. The latter company pur-
chased the mill at the Falls, which had for-
merly belonged to the Thames Company.
These companies were established by Mr.
Greene chiefly upon his own credit, and were
kept, while he lived, under his management
and direction; each mill had 1,500 spindles in
operation.
Mr. Greene was the prime mover and the
largest subscriber to the stock of the Water
Power Company, incorporated in 1828 "for
building a dam and canal in order to bring
the waters of the Shetucket river into manu-
facturing use." He had previously purchased
land on the Quinebaug above the union with
the Shetucket and on the latter river from
Sachem's Plain downward, nearly three miles
in extent on either side of the river, in Nor-
wich and Preston. The Shetucket dam was
built, a canal dug, and a village was laid out
by this company, and properly named Greene-
ville in honor of William P. Greene, who had
been the active promoter of the enterprise.
On July 14, 1819, Mr. Greene married Eliza-
beth Augusta Borland, of Boston.
(VII) Gardiner (2), eldest son of William
Parkinson Greene, was born in Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, September 19, 1822, and came
with his parents in 1824 to Norwich, Connecti-
cut, where he attended school, after which he
entered Yale College, graduating in 1843. He
then attended the Law School of Harvard Col-
lege, and graduated with the degree of LL. B.
in 1845. Returning to Norwich, his health
not permitting him to practice his chosen pro-
fession, he became engaged in manufacturing
with his father, assisting him in establishing
the Shetucket cotton mills at Greeneville. also
the cotton mill at the Falls, and was for many
years manager of both, also filling the office
of treasurer of both companies, and conduct-
ing the business with marked ability and suc-
cess. He retired from business a few years
before his death, which sad event occurred at
his home in North Washington street, Nor-
wich, October 30, 1895, and he was buried in
Yantic cemetery. He was a Republican in
politics, and was a staunch supporter of his
party ; while he never sought office, he took a
deep interest in the growth and improvement
of his adopted city, and was ever ready to aid
in whatever tended to the advancement of
Norwich and its institutions. He was a con-
sistent member of Christ Episcopal Church of
Norwich, and for many years held the office
of vestryman, and still later was senior war-
den of the church. He took a deep interest
in all church work. Mr. Greene was a gen-
tleman of culture; his refined taste and pleas-
ant, unassuming manner won for him the ad-
miration and respect of his fellow men. He
was the soul of honor, detesting shams of all
kinds ; was kind and charitable, and delighted
to relieve suffering wherever possible. His
home life was one of happiness and content-
ment, and it was there that his fine personal
characteristics were best reflected. Mr.
Greene was a director in the Norwich Water
Power Company, and he was also interested in
banking matters.
He married, June 26, 1850, Mary R. Adams,
of Alexandria, Virginia, daughter of Francis
and Mary R. (Newton) Adams; she was much
devoted to her husband and family, and like
him is a member of Christ Episcopal Church.
They had two children : Gardiner Jr., and
Leonard V., who died at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
September 18, 1895.
(\TII) Gardiner (3), son of Gardiner (2)
Greene, was born August 31, 1851, in Nor-
wich. He was graduated from the Norwich
Free Academy in 1868, from Yale College in
1873, and from Columbia College Law School
in 1877.
He was admitted to the bar in New York
City, in May, 1877, ^"^ ^t New London,.
Connecticut, in March, 1878. In the latter
year be became associated in the practice of
law with the late Hon. John Turner Wait,
of Norwich, a partnership that only terminated
with Mr.Wait's death in 1899. Mr. Greene was
a member, from Norwich, to the lower house
of the general assembly of the state in 1891-
92 and in 1895-96. He was chairman of the
committee on canvass of votes for state offi-
cers in the memorable deadlock session of
1891-92. The house having ordered that no
business should be introduced except through
this committee, he was placed at the head of
the Republican party in the assembly during
that contest. He was a member of the com-
mission for the revision of the statutes of
Connecticut, whose labors are represented in
the general statutes of 1902. Mr. Greene was
appointed a judge of the superior court of
Connecticut in 1909. He married, .^pril 4,
1894, Louise Eustis Reynolds, of Norwich,
daughter of the late Henry Lee and Mary
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(Ilill) Reynolds, liotli Mr. and Mrs. Greene
arc members of Clirist Episcopal Church.
Harmaniis Madison Welch, son
WELCH of George and Zelinda (N'ilcs)
Welch, was born July i8. 1813,
in East Hampton, Connecticut, died May 29,
1889, in .\\\\ Haven. ( in his fallier's side he
was of Scotch- Irish descent, his mother's an-
cestors were En;,dish.
.\t about sisteen years of aj^e, he went to
Amherst witii the intention of fittinjj himself
to i)racticc medicine, but was induceil instead
ti> enter upon a commercial life, and before he
bfcame of age he had commenced in his own
name a business career which was extended
over half a century and was one of unswerving
rectitude and marked success. He started in
Bristol and I'lainville, Connecticut, and later
became interested in .some of the most pros-
jierous man u fact uriiif^ cnterjjrises of the state.
In iutlustry and thorontihness, and in williufj-
ness to serve tiie i)ublic in positions where the
duties were arduous and e.xactinj;, his career
miyht well serve as a model one. While liv-
ing:; in Plainville, he was chosen to represent
Hartford county in the state .senate, and serveil
also at dift'erent jieriods in the ijeneral assem-
bly. In 1848 he removed tf> New Haven and
became the partner of Hon. James E. English,
uho was afterwarils member of congress, gov-
1 rnor of Coiniecticut, and Cnited States sen-
iior. This partnership continued until his
A-alh. In 18^0 .Mr. Welch was elected mayor
md continued in that office imtil 1863, and
uhile mayor his equipment and forwarding of
triKips were cs|>ecially ci^nspicuous. His great-
est service to the country was the promptness
with which he and his associates tendered fi-
nancial aid to the government in the time of
its greatest neetl in 1863, by the formation of
the I'irst National I'.ank of Xcw Haven, of
which he was the organizer and for over
twenty-six years the president. This bank,
though numbered tw<i on the list of the ctnup-
troller of the currency, was in reality the first
to comply fully with all the required conditions,
and the mor.Vl effect u|>on others of his early
action was. in view of his well-known conserva-
tism and that oi others connected with him.
very beneficial.
For the last thirty years of his life. Mr.
Welch was constantly entrusted by the people
f New Haven with positions of rcs|OTnsibility.
Most of that time he acted as town and city
treasurer, but will perhaps be best remembered
locally, by his services uixm the board of
I ducation. When he assumed office the credit
f the scho<il district was at its lowest, and its
notes had gone to protest. He advanced the
ib-
is.
lie
in
•I,
ry
njui for
1 of its
money to complete the Eiiloti -
instnimcntnl in the m-afi")! •••
lie
H.
eiliu
which he found it t".
which at his death \
schcM)I /or the '
the thorougbi
pupils. He IK It .1 ■ .ry
education, but was ; .n
that through such in. , cm
of immigration would Ik- solved. l*ew men
outside of those coiMiertc! with <"f|iimtt'>iinl in-
stitutions ha\i a
period and to .: . h
was also a tni^.v. ■■, ,,..i, ..,>.,- ...-ii-
tute, which until within a few \cars furnished
the only available i>ublic library. The general
public was singularly iiulifTerent to its needs,
but Mr. Welch, by wise judgment in invest-
ments, succeeded in ' ' ' ' wn
building, and in mal
The cpiality whii.i; . •.111-
guished Mr. Welch was the keenness with
which he felt the responsibility i^f any private
or public trust confided in him. These trusts
were many, but large or small, each received
the same attention to the last ' • •' '• vas
this acute sense of his duty \'. ed
his ever taking neede<l rest an^i rnt
of a trip abnxjd. He was | an
active mind, gifteil with a rema: ry,
and as he spent his entire leisure inu- m his
library, his intellectual attainments iK-camc of
a high order.
He married, on May 21, 1834, Antoinette,
daughter of Noble ,\braham .nnd 1 vdia Grid-
ley Pierce, of Bristol, < < )f the
family of eleven chiKlren. infancy.
The others are: I. Colonel - As-
sistant (luartemiaster, l m-
tecrs. <Iied I'\'liruary 11. ; An-
toinette, married Professor Aie\.-m"ier van Mil-
lingen, of Robert College. Constaiuinoplc. July
16, 1879, died November 2.'. i8-,2. 3. Pierce
Noble, mentioned bci-'W. 4. VAh Marian,
married Edwin S. W ' ■ ■ '■ • • ^■- n ,vcn,
January 12, 1870. >8.
5. Grace, married ' of
New Haven. May i<». 184.7. ''• ''-thnda Ly-
dia, \'assar A. B.. 1873: married William J.
I.saacson, of Cincinnati. ' '' ' '"'**2,
died func 9, 1888. 7. i n.
M. D!, Yale. B. A., 1875. , 18,
1877.
( Iin Pierce Noble, son of Harmanus Madi-
son and .Xntoincttc (Pierce) Welch, was bom
in Plainville, Connecticut, June 27, 1841, died
October 26, 1909, in Berlin. (■.(••••"^•<> The
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greater part of Mr. Welch's boyhood was spent
in New Haven, where he attended General
Russell's Militar_v School, in preparation for
Yale College. After receiving the degree of
B. A. in 1862, he spent two years in travel,
and in study at the Universities of Berlin and
Gottingen. In 1867 he began his business life
in New York City, as partner in a wholesale
grocery house. Returning to New Haven in
1870, Mr. Welch became interested in the or-
ganization of the New Haven Rolling Mill
Company, with which he was connected as
treasurer and president until 1890. Succeed-
ing his father, he was president of the First
National Bank from 1889 until his death ; he
was also president of the Bristol Brass Com-
pany, vice-president of the Bristol Manufac-
turing Company, and of the New Haven Gas
Light Company, a director of the New Haven
Clock Company, a trustee of the New Haven
Trust Company, and of the National Savings
Bank, a director of the Security Insurance
Company, and of other business, as well as
philanthropic organizations of the city. Mr.
Welch was a generous promoter of many char-
itable and religious movements, and made large
contributions to the Young Men's Christian
Association, of which he was president for fif-
teen years. He was also president of Mt.
Meigs Institute in Waugh, Alabama, a school
for the education of the negro race, and was
treasurer of the Yale Foreign Missionary So-
ciety, which has in charge the Yale Collegiate
School and hospital at Changsha, China. In
1892 he presented Yale University with Welch
Hall, erected in memory of his father. In col-
lege. Mr. Welch was a member of the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity, and later an honorary
member of the Senior Society, Wolf's Head.
He belonged to the Yale and Reform clubs
of New York, and the Graduates Club of New
Haven. From early manhood a member of the
First Baptist Church, he shared in its activities
and privileges, and for nearly a quarter of a
century served as superintendent of its Sun-
dav-school. In later years he was also greatly
interested in the work of his denomination
among the Italians of the city. A man of broad
sympathies and generous deeds, unfailing in
patience and courtesy, and in unselfish devo-
tion to duty, Mr. Welch will long be remem-
bered in the community as an inspiring exam-
ple of Christian manhood.
He married, February 28, 1867, Emma Cor-
nelia, daughter of John and Cornelia (Mon-
tague) Galpin, whose ancestors came from
England to Connecticut, in the early days of
its history.
Their children are: i. Cornelia Galpin, wife
of John Marshall Gaines, of New York City,
Yale, B. A., 1896: Ph. D., 1900; children:
John Marshall, Jr., born October 31. 1902;
William Welch, June 12, 1904; Pierce Welch,
August 13, 1905. 2. Ella Marian, Vassar,
A. B., 1895 ; wife of Henry Solon Graves, Yale,
B. A., 1892, director of the Yale Forest School,
and chief forester of the United States. 3.
Pierce Noble, mentioned below. 4. Hilda
Frances, Vassar, A. B., 1901 ; wife of Charles
Welles Gross, of Hartford, Connecticut, Yale,
B. A., 1898. Harvard, LL. B., 1901 : child,
Spencer, born December 22. 1906. 5. Cora
Deming, Vassar, A. B., 1904.
(I\') Pierce Noble (2), son of Pierce Noble
(i) and Emma Cornelia (Galpin) Welch,
was born March 14, 1877, in New
Haven. Connecticut. He attended the pub-
lic schools of his native city and Phillips
Academy at Andover. After graduating
from Yale, in 1898, he spent two years
at the Harvard Law School, and a year
and a half as a clerk in the First National
Bank of New Haven. Returning from a trip
around the world in 1902, Mr. Welch became
connected with the Peck Brothers' Company,
of which he is vice-president and treasurer.
He is a director of the First National Bank, of
the New Haven Clock Company, of the Bris-
tol Brass Company, of the Bristol Manufactur-
ing Company, and a trustee of the Young
Men's Christian Association. He is a member
of the Graduates Club, of the Yale Club of
New York City, and of the Alpha Delta Phi
fraternity of Yale University. He belongs to
the First Baptist Church.
The Scofield family is of an-
SCOFIELD cient and honorable lineage,
representatives thereof being
prominent in the various walks of life, per-
forming conscientiously and faithfully the du-
ties and responsibilities which fell to their lot.
The first ancestor of the family was Sir Cuth-
bert Scofield. of Scofield Manor.
(I) Daniel Scofield. grandson of Sir Cuth-
bert Scofield, was born in the parish of Roch-
dale, Lancashire. England. In 1609 he emi-
grated to America, sailing in the ship, "Susan
and Ellen," and after residing for a time at
Ipswich. Massachusetts, located at Stamford,
Connecticut, where he died in 1670. He ap-
pears to have been a man of prominence in the
colony, and in 1658 served as marshal of
Stamford. He married Mary, daughter of
Rev. John Youngs. Children : Daniel ; John,
see forward; Richard: Joseph: Mary, born
November. 1657 ! Sarah.
(II) John, second son of Daniel and Mary
(Youngs) Scofield, was born in 1650. died
March 27, 1699. He married, at Stamford,
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709
July 12. i''"7. Hannah Mca'i. Cliiklrcii, Ixjrii
at Stamford: i. Samuel, July 10, 1678: mar-
ried, February 10, 1703, Eunice Buxton. 2.
John, January 15, 1680, died 1758; married,
Xo\ ember 17. 1743, Mary Mead, of Green-
wich : no children ; he was known as Serjeant
John. 3. Ebenezer, June 26, 1685. 4. Na-
thaniel, December 10, 16S8, sec forward. 5.
-Mercy, October 30. 1690; married Henry
. 6. Mary, August 4, 1694. 7.
Susanna. March 2. i()98; married. February
1 1. 1720. Caleb Smith.
(Ill) Nathaniel, son of John ami Hannah
(.Mead) Scofielil, was born in Stamford, Con-
necticut, December 10, 1688, died 1768. He
married. January 21, 1713-14, Elizabeth Pet-
tet. Chilrlren : John, born, October 4, 1714,
see forward; Nathaniel, March 7, 1717: Jona-
tiiaii. .May 2. 1719 : Josiah. June 26. 1721 ; Eliz-
abeth. .\iif,'ust 11, 1726; David. .May 13, 1727;
.Silvaiuis. .May i. 17^9; Thankful, October 11,
1731: .Silas, December 10. 1735; .■\!)rahain,
I'ebruary 17. 1737.
( I\) John (2) son of Nathaniel and Eliz-
•ibetli ( Pettet) Scofield, was born in Stamford,
Connecticut. ( )ctober 4. 1714. He was a team-
ster in the revohitionary war. He married,
.March 4, 1744, Hannah Mills. Children: Sil-
vanus and Epenetus, twins, born December i.
1744: John, see forward.
(V) John (3). son of John (2), and Han-
nah (Mills) Scofield, was born in .Stamford,
Connecticut. September 4, 174^1, died .^pril 17,
1S33. He was a substantial citizen and prop-
erty owner at Sbippan, town of Stamford. He
married (first) I'ebruary 18, 1768, Susanna
Weed: (secon<l), January 14, 1773, Sarah
Nichols, who died in 1818, aijed sixty-fi%e
years : (third) Martha Lounsbury. Chiblren
by second wife: i. Susanna, born December
'0. ^77Z: married, March 31. 1796, William
Bishop, father of .\lfred Bishop, of Bridcje-
port. who built the New York & New Haven
railroad (see r.ishop family). 2. John. Janu-
ary 14, 1775 : married. Februarys. i8o(). Sally
Knapj). 3. Silas, .\pril 2, 1776; married. Feb-
ruary 4, 1803. Rebecca Holmes. 4. Robert.
July 14, 1777. sec forward. 5. James, Sep-
tember 22. 1778, see forward. 6. Elizalieth,
July 15. 1781 : married. February 7, 1804, Ru-
fus Knapp. 7. I'.cnjamin. June 21. 1783. died
October 20. 1801. 8. .Sarah Nichols, Septem-
ber 4. 1788. died January 7, 1700.
(\'I) Robert, third son of John (3) and
-Sarah (Nichols) Scofield, was born in Stam-
ford. Connecticut. July 14. 1777. <Iied May «).
1817. He was a farmer by occupation. He
married, .\pril 13. 1708. Haimah Ik-U : she
died December IQ. 1843. Children: Eliza,
born July 15. \~<Y). died January z^, 1846;
Darius. ' ■'• — •'-■ ■ '• ' -.-o-
Sally, ' -S3;
(jcorRe. .31.
1881 ; James B., May lo, Jiio/, sec ii^rward;
Oliver, June 13, 1809, <lird Inw 2fi, 1870;
Emily, May 15. 1811; H " '. 6. 1813,
died .April 18, 1871 : W.v ry, 1815,
died Januarv a, 1837; \\J. ,...: 10, 1817.
died October 15, 1894.
(VH ) lnirr<; B.. ton nf Rnhrrt arid Hannah
(Bell) - ■
Stamfoi
tobcr 15, i.-K,. 1,1 ..i;n .-.ir rir
trade of blacksmith, but -;cd
in the foundry busim s- I)
Warren and Isaac \\
firm name of J D. \\
later Mr. Wai:
field formed v.
Foundry Coii.j ..
continued up to the time of
was a lo.idiiii; nT'ii' I r f t!i.
ciety at ^
of the '-
marricil 1 111^; 1 .\],i ;i :
Raymond, liorn at \j<'
Connecticut. Novcmlur
1839. Married (.se
drcn by first wife : ■
4. 1831. see forward; Cewis i 4,
1833. died June 13, 1863, at tis.
while serving as n ' ■ • '"
Twenty-eighth Ci'i
try; Haimah M.. b •
Feliruary 6, i8<'i3. CliiUireii 1 it:
Mary .\.. June 14, 18 ji, marrii !:is-
1am. now ' .... ,^^^
M.. .Vg. n-
ily B. li -,. .^45-
married Cyrus V\ . i)eart>orn; no children;
Elizabeth H., bom January 14. 1855, married
.\llen J. Finny ; children : Lillian and James
.\. Finnv.
(VH'n George E., s ■ ■ ' " nnd
Betsey .\nn (Raymond) in
Stamford, Connecticut. I In
early manhood he learnetl lite •■ ■ n-
ter with Thomas P. Pir-Mv sor r-n-
ticeship of four y< 'n-
nccted with the St ly.
f.,-,,,' •.■•:.'■■ "> their » .1 , . . 's,
di ter part of whi \as
a .\bout 1874 ! of
his inicit,-.i in that business, asi.l .a v.i-.ious
times has been connected with imtx>rtant con-
cerns in his I . - .■ - . - jj
treasurer of :n-
pany. and vict , ^'iv-
ings r.ank for some years. He is a staunch
Republican, and has fille<l offices of tnist
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and responsibility, among wliich was that
of deputy assessor under the internal
revenue act appointed by United States
government for the towns of Stamford, Green-
wich and Darien, which he lield for about two
3-ears ; deputy collector and inspector of cus-
toms for the district of Fairfield for seven
years ; collector of town, school and borough
taxes : town and borough assessbr ; Republican
register of voters, serving for twenty-one
years ; appointed by President Arthur, post-
master of Stamford, which appointment he de-
clined : clerk in probate court, serving for ten
years. He has always taken an active part in
the Universalist society at Stamford, serving
for thirty-six years in the capacity of treas-
urer. He enlisted as a private in 1862 in Com-
pany B., Twenty-eighth Connecticut \"olun-
teer Infantry; was promoted in January, 1863,
to commissary sergeant, and served as such un-
til he was mustered out at New Haven, August
28, 1863. He married (first) :\Iay 19, 1858,
Lydia E. Ferris, of Stamford, Connecticut,
born May 7, 1833, died November 13. 1867 ;
married (second) June 15, 1869, Emma E.
Rose, of Suffield, Connecticut. Child of
first wife: Arthur F., born May 20, 1859,
married Lillian E. Simmons : no children.
Children by second wife: Julia Rose, born
March 5. 1871, married Dr. Charles P. Haller,
of Bridgeport, Connecticut : no children ;
James Bell, born April 12, 1875, died ]^Iarch
30, 1876.
(\"I) James, four son of John and Sarah
(Nichols) Scofield, was born in Stamford,
Connecticut, September 22, 1778. He was a
farmer by occupation. He removed to New
Jersey during the latter part of his life, and
his death occurred there. He married, April
17, 1803, Anna Jones. Children : James Jones,
born August 22, 1804; John William, April 10,
1805; Sarah Ann, October 13. 1806; Edward
R.., ':\Iarch 17, 1808; Albert Henry. July 29,
1809 : Lydia Emeline, February 22. 181 1 : Eliz-
abeth Nichols, August 26, 1812 ; Hannah
Maria, October 7. 1814; David Lyman, July
22, 1816, see forward : Charles Ephraim, De-
cember 7, 1 81 7.
(^'II) David Lyman, son of James and
Anna (Jones) Scofield, was born July 22, 1816,
died January 19, 1883. He was for some years
associated with the late Alfred Bishop, of
Bridgeport, in building and contracting enter-
prises, they having built many miles of the
present New York & New Haven railroad in
addition to various others. During the latter
part of his life ^Ir. Scofield was engaged as a
civil engineer, deriving therefrom a lucrative
livelihood. After his marriage he took up his
residence in Stamford, remaining there until
his death. He married, January i, 1S50, in
Stamford, Connecticut, Josephine Webb, born
in New Rochelle, New York, July 8. 183 1,
daughter of Augustus and Naomi (Water-
bury) Webb, her mother having been a daugh-
ter of \Mlliam Waterbury. jMrs. Scofield came
to Stamford, Connecticut, from New Rochelle,
New York, at the age of five years, accompany-
ing her parents, w-ho purchased the home
where she now resides with her son. Henry
Clay Scofield, in which she was married, and
where she has lived for over seventy-four
3"ears. Children : Annie Louise, born ^Iarch
22, 1851, died April 28, 1881. unmarried: Sar-
ah Frances, September 16, 1854, died Novem-
ber 3. 1880, unmarried ; Henry Clay, Novem-
ber 26, 1856, see forward; Edward Everett,
August 29. 1861, died October 24. 1863 : Emily
Augusta, May 27, 1864, married, June 9, 1897,
Samuel M. Burroughs; Josephine Webb. June
8, 1867, died iMay 10, 1910 ; married, June 3,
1902, James B. Bonney; child, Henry Scofield,
born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 24,
1907; Augustus \\'ebb, February 21, 1870.
(VIII) Henry Clay, eldest son of David
Lyman and Josephine (Webb) Scofield, was
born NovemlDer 26, 1856, in Stamford, Con-
necticut.
He attended the old Broad street school,
known as the Center school, acquiring a
practical education which qualified him for
the active duties of life. For a short time
after completing his studies he was associated
with his father in civil engineering. In 1875
he entered mercantile life in New York City,
and at the present time (1910) is serving in
the capacity of treasurer and secretary of the
C. H. & E. S. Goldbury Company, Incorpor-
ated, wholesale dealers and manufacturers of
wooden ware in New York City. He attends
the Universalist church of Stamford, of which
he is treasurer and a member of various com-
mittees. He is a member of the ]^Iunicipal Art
Society of New York City and of the ]\Ietro-
politan Museum of Art of New York Cit)'. He
resides with his mother in Stamford.
John Jenkins, immigrant an-
JENKINS cestor, came from Judbury,
Scotland, to America about
1750. He settled in New York. He married a
Miss Gordon, niece of Sir John Sinclair, the
Scottish statistician and agriculturist. They
eloped and came to America, where they set-
tled. They had a son, James.
(II) James, son of John Jenkins, was born
1755, died 1817. He was a corporal in the
revolutionary war, attached to the North Jer-
sey Continental line, served under Captain
Outwater, honorably discharged at end of
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war. He married Susanna \an Geldcr, and
they had a son. James.
(Ill) James (2), son of James (i) Jen-
kins, was born in 1789 in Xcw York
City. He was a very prominent mer-
chant of Xew York City, and engayed
in the wholesale hardware busine-^is. He
was identified witli many institutions.
He was a director of the- Nc.rtli River
Bank, and had various offices of trust. He
died in Xcw York City duriii;; tiu- <\.-.'r-; ^.■ ,,i
cholera in 1840. He married Han:
son. Children: i. James W.. wh
luriuK the ^'old excitement of iS4y, m Culi-
rnia. but later returned and settled in Madi-
•■ '■'■'•.■■■. ■■I--- '••■ 'icd. J. Jolr- ■ '
York all ;
il years wit!
.lit>4e ; lie tlitd iiHy7. uinnarried. ,5. Ciiarles
. who went to California, but later returned
: 1 settled at Salem. Massachusetts; he mar-
■ d Lucy Weston, and i1k\ had one child,
iwrence W.. whn Is cnr.itor <if X.Ttur.il His-
:y in the nui>eiiiii at Salem. .Ma--.ii.liii<elts.
George Washinytmi .Mlston, nieiiiiiMicd bc-
X. 5. Hannah, married Rev. Dr. .\bram D.
llette. a Baptist cleri^yman. 6. Susan, mar-
ried Dr. Pitcher, of Madison. Indiana.
(I\') George Washiniitoii .Mlston. son of
Tames ( 2 1 Jeiikin>. was born in Xew York
;y, I'ebruary 20. i8i'>. and was reare<l there.
il- received a l^imkI education, attending; board-
ing school at Xew Canaan. Connecticut. In
early life he became an artist and sj>cnt several
years in Eur- • ■ '■ ••i>j art in Paris. Brus-
sels and Dii- r his return lie fitte<l
up a fine st' •• ilt expensively in im-
rted paintings and works of the old masters
Xew York. He was also one of the found-
ers of the Xatiniial .\cadcmy of Desi-jju in Xew
York City. In 18/15 settled in Stamford, where
he botight antl inipri>ved real i--* •' '■'■ ••■ He
died I'ebruary 23, i</xi. He ^^.
in Stamford. Emma Clarke. 1;: rr of
Ciiarles Pitt, of Stamford, and daughter of
John Clarke, of Ilo-ton. Children, born in
Stamfonl: 1. James Sinclair. 1871. mentioned
below. 2. ("le^'rure .\ll-t<'n. txirn in 1870: en-
gaged in the real estate and insurance business
in Stamford ; married Ethel Ford, of Stam-
ford.
(\') James Sinclair, son of George Wash-
ington Allston Jenkins, was born in Stamford.
< "nnccticut. October 31. 1871. He prepared
• ci:>llege at St. Mark"? Schixil. Southlxir-
:gh. Massachusetts, and entered Yale Uni-
versity, graduating with the degree of A. B. in
the class of 1894 and from the Yale Law-
School with the degree of LL. B. in 1896. In
the same vear he was admitted to the bar
and began [imcticc at Stanif..rd iii |..^rlI.t•r^hip
cejr
l'elluw.>.
He ie I
C
the Viii.
Club .
Club fi 1
Club a
City. \'
bcr of t:
Senior >
society, \
the Law
H
en
(\l
eriiv . a v.
Poni«'r<i\ ■
bu-v
Al!
Sep: ... .-,■■■, ,
19, 1907; John Jay. July 20, 1910.
-MORK
from tlu-
sjKrll. ,!
ric<
and
sions a.-.
these latt.
Maurice,
origin. .'^
liam the '
means warlike nr p-
signify a chieftain.
Essex. Ei . '
Morris, \'
i^trr '••
of I \ as the sc.i
ris t
bom Apni i, 1074.
(II) Daniel, son of Dorman and Elinor
Morris, was boni February 13, 1672. died in
1749. buried in Bridgeport. Connecticut. He
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married Polly Benjamin, born in Stratford,
Connecticut. Child : Daniel, mentioned below.
(III) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (i) and
Polly (Benjamin) Morris, was born in Bridge-
port, Connecticut, May 7, 1715, died March i,
1792, in Gray's Plains, Newtown, buried at
Walker's Farms. He moved to Newtown
about 1782. He was a farmer and joiner. He
was appointed guardian of the Golden Hill In-
dians and to report to the probate court of
Fairfield in February, 1768. He married
(first), July 9, 1741, Sarah Fayerweather
Mackhard, widow of Matthew Mackhard ; she
was born in Scotland, 1712-13, died April 16,
1761, and was buried in Stratford. He mar-
ried (second) Mrs. Jackson, widow. Children
of first wife: Mary, born December i, 1742;
Sarah, September i, 1745; Amos, November
30, 1747, died young; Daniel, March 8, 1749,
died ]\Iay 7, 1749; Daniel, December 13, 1750,
mentioned below ; James, June 14, 1753,
moved to Halifax; Matthew Mackhard, July
25, 1757- Child of second wife: Amos, born
September 28, 1762.
(IV) Daniel (3), son of Daniel (2) and
Sarah Fayerweather (Mackhard) Morris, was
born in Fairfield, noW Bridgeport, December
13, 1750, died in Newtown, March 15, 1828,
buried at Walker's Farms. He attended the
Lexington alarm. He conducted a saw and
flour mill in the Gray's Plains district of New-
town, and also conducted agricultural pursuits.
He was active in local afifairs. He moved to
Huntington about 1790, to Roxbury about
1817, and later to Newtown. He married
June 12, 1774, Elizabeth, born 1757, daughter
of Israel and Mary (Salter) Burritt. Mary
(Salter) Burritt was born June 23, 1725, in
Antiego, one of the West India Islands, and
came from there to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Morris : Israel B.,
born in Newtown, July 26, 1775 ; Sally (or
Sarah), born in Bridgeport, married (first)
Abraham Blackman, (second) Abel Curtis;
James, born in Bridgeport ; Daniel, born in
Newtown, January 27, 1781 ; Eli Gould, June
6, 1783, mentioned below; Polly, born August
I, 1786, married John Blackman; Nancy, born
July I, 1790, married Silas N. Glover; Eliza-
beth (or Betsey), born January 30, 1792, mar-
ried Fairchild Burritt ; Eunice, born June 6,
1793, married John Blackman; Winthrop,
lived in Woodbury and Roxbury.
(V) Eli Gould, son of Daniel (3) and Eliz-
abeth (Burritt) Morris, was born in Newtown,
June 6, 1783, died there January 3, 1856. He
was a successful farmer in his native town. In
1819 he bought a farm of eighty-five acres,
which he afterward increased to about one
hundred and thirtv acres. He was a member
of the Episcopal church at the time of his mar-
ria'ge ; he was a Democrat in politics, but never
held public office. He married, March 21,
1821, Lydia Bennett, born in Trumbull, Con-
necticut, June 4, 1794, died July 2, 1879, in
Newtown. Children : Eli James, born Decem-
ber 20, 1821, died Newtown, November 10,
1901, married, September 2, 1850, Jane E.
Chambers ; Luzon Burritt, April 16, 1827,
mentioned below ; Martha Jane, December 14,
1834, died in Newtown, June 12, 1877.
(VI) Hon. Luzon Burritt, son of Eli Gould
and Lydia (Bennett) Morris, was born in
Newtown, April 16, 1827, died in New Haven,
August 22, 1895. He attended for a time the
common schools of his neighborhood. At the
age of sixteen he began work for a black-
srriith in Roxbury. Later in the same year he
worked in the edge tool factory of Raymond
French, of Seymour. Being ambitious,
he saved his earnings and used them
for an education. He attended the Con-
necticut Literary Institute at Suffield,
where he prepared for college. He then
entered Yale College, graduating in 1854.
He then prepared for the profession of
law, partly in the Law School and partly in
an office, and was admitted to the bar in 1856.
He began practice in Seymour, and entered at
once into political life, identifying himself with
the Democratic party. In 1855-56 he was a
representative from the town of Seymour to
the legislature. In 1857 ^^ was appointed
judge of probate for the New Haven district,
to which office he was elected six times. His
wide experience gained in this office was the
cause of his being made chairman of the com-
missioners appointed by the legislature to re-
vise the probate laws of the state. In 1870
he represented New Haven in the legislature,
and in 1874 hf served in the state senate. In
the former body he was chairman of the com-
mittee on railroads, and in the latter chairman
of the judiciary committee and also president
pro tern. He was returned to the lower house
in 1876, also in 1880-81, and in the last two
sessions was active in the discussions on the
question of the boundary line between Con-
necticut and New York, and served again on
the judiciary committee and as chairman of
the committee on incorporations. The com-
mission to which the boundary line dispute
was referred agreed to fix the line in the
middle of the Sound, a decision which pre-
served to Connecticut lands of immense value
to the oyster producers along the coast.
Throughout his long period of public service.
Judge Morris gained a thorough knowledge of
legislation and administration, and his experi-
ence, probity and faithfulness to trust com-
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man<lcfl for Iiiiii an inMiiciitial place in his pro-
fession and in the ])u1ilic councils, and jjained
for him the esteem of his fellow citizens, with-
out regard to ])artisan flitTerences. I'or twenty-
five years or more hefore his death he was a
distinguished memhcrof the New Haven coun-
ty bar, his practice being connected largelv
with the settlement of estates. As the agent
of Daniel Hand, he handled for him more than
a million dullars, and was instrumental in cs-
talilishing the Hand Academy at .Nfadison.
Connecticut. In tin- eighties,' Judge Morris
began Id be talked alxiut as a good and avail-
able man for governor, and in i,S88, he was a
candidate of the UcnvKratic ])arty for that
office. He received at the election following a
plurality of the votes cast, but not a majority,
which the state requires to elect, and the Icg-
isl.iture. beirg Republican, his opponent was
chosen. He was again a candidate at the next
election, and although he received a majority
of the votes was restrained from assuming the
duties of the office through technicalities. In
i8<)2 he was for the third time a candidate
and won. He gave the state one of the best
administrations it had ever had. His career
was one of his own shaping and forging, and
is a good example o( what may be accom-
plished by men of genius and perseverance.
For years before his death he was one of the
most trusted cmmselors of the state. He was
for more than twenty years prominently con-
necte<I with the Connecticut Saving* Piank of
New Haven and was its president at the time
of his death. He was always greatly interested
in the schools of New Haven, an interest pro-
ductive of much good. He served on the New-
Haven hoard of education an<l also on the
board at W'estville. and in each body was
president.
judge Morris married, June 13, 1836, Eu-
genia Laura, horn October 3. 1833, daughter
of Lucius and Laura Tuttle, of Seymour, Con-
necticut. Children : Robert Tuttle, born May
14. 1837, mentioned below; Mary Seymour,
December i, 1838, a graduate of X'assar Col-
lege in 1880. married Charles M. Pratt, of
Brooklyn. New York; Helen Harrison, May
12. i8'>^ graduate of \'assar, 1883, married
President .Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale Col-
lege: Emily Eugenia. June 2f->, 18^, graduate
of \assar, 1890: Charles Could. February 4,
1871, mentioned below; Ray. June 4, 1878,
mentioned below.
{ \'in Robert Tuttle, son of Hon. Luzon
Burritt and Eugenia Laura (Tuttle) Morris,
was bi^rn May 14. 1837. He graduated from
Cornell College. i87<). and later gra<luated
with the flegree of M. D. from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of New Yorlc; now
practic"'- ••• V... v ,1 /
June i
(Vli ■
Burritt and l:lu|^cnta l^ura
was lK)rn at WVstvillr. Cnw
4. 1871. H • • •
fitted for .
schixjl of .\
Yale College m t
Ihf N'ale Lnw S- '
ConiKcticut
grades anil
tcered in the navy in 1
American war iK-gaii :v
acting B. M., fir-'
Newtown since n.
ocrat. He !•; ' " . ;
Christ of ■ . known
Church M tl). Hr '
Hiran' i iS, Free :r
sons : I >h War \i
cut S>M( I'. • •' '
and to the '
is secretary
Reform Association. He 111.
lyn. New York, ."^epteinlier 2~
\\'oodbridgc.
(\Tn Ray, son of Hon. Luzon Burritt and
Eugenia I^nura (Tuttle) Morris, was I)om in
New Haven. June 4. 1878. He graduated
from Yale College, class of i</5i. He is a
banker in New York City. He married. Oc-
tober 4, i9o^», Katharine (jrinnell. of New-
York.
Matthew Morris, the rcvlu-
MORRIS tionary ancestor of this family,
was the first of the rn?ve in
W.-Midbury, Connecticut. He was
Captain Nathan Hinc's company, wr
of corporal, in 1776. In 1790, hi
sons under sixteen and two fen'.
family, according to the first fcdc
He married Mehitahle, l)orn May ^j. 171.J.
daughter of B<'nianiin ItiHsnn, nf VVnodbnrv.
Among his . " ' '
wife (lied at
twenty-seven.
1S21 : Judson, mentioned below.
(ID Judson. son of Matthew Morris, wns
born at Woodbury. He married '
hitable Peck, who died .\pril 8.
thirtv-two years. He '
i8!.v Jentsha, l>orn Jv
of Reuljen and Thank 1
Morris was a prominent cm —do
farmer and large land owi'. of
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first wife : Almira, Eliza, ]\Iehitable, Alarcus
and Sally. Children of second wife : Henry ;
Hobart Hotchkiss, mentioned below; Betsey,
married Church; Ruth, married Le-
grand Judson ; Imogene, married Charles S.
Crane.
Reuben Hotchkiss, son of David Hotchkiss,
was born at Woodbury, March 8, 1756. He
was a soldier in the revolution in Captain Na-
than Hine's company in 1776 and in Captain
Stoddard's company in 1777, and was living
in 1832 in Litchfield county, his name appear-
ing on the pension list at that time. Reuben
Hotchkiss married in 1783, Thankful jMinor,
.who died May 4, 1842 ; their children : Jerusha,
born April 25, 1784, died young; Jerusha, June
20, 1785, mentioned above; Josiah, November
4, 1787; Harvey, February 13, 1790; Betsey,
July 16, 1792; Reuben Harvey, June 11, 1794;
David, November 5, 1796, Gervase, July 2,
1801 ; Ruth, December 16, 1803. David Hotch-
kiss, father of Reuben Hotchkiss, settled in
Woodbury, in 1740; married, November 10,
1747, Submit, daughter of Isaac Hill. She
died in March, 1756 ; their children : Sibil, born
May 29, 1749; David, baptized January 20,
1751; Huldah, April 16, 1752; Eliza, Febru-
ary 3, 1754 ; Reuben, March 8, 1756, mentioned
above.
(Ill) Hobart Hotchkiss, son of Judson
Morris, was born at Woodbury, Connecticut,
May 24, 1817; died February 2, 1891. When
a young man he learned the trade of finish-
ing cassimer and followed it for a number of
years in the woolen mill in Hotchkissville, in
the town of Woodbury. He then entered the
employ of Allen & Dayton, general merchants,
Hotchkissville, and held positions of responsi-
bility under different firms conducting that
business for a period of twenty-eight years,
and until he retired from active business. He
was an able business man, thoroughly reliable
and of strict integrity, and possessed the es-
teem and confidence of the community. He
was active in public affairs and served with
ability as justice of the peace, as postmaster
and in various other offices of trust and honor.
He was a prominent member of the Congre-
gational church.
Hobart Hotchkiss married, October 18,
1842, Sarah M., daughter of George and Sally
(Way) Hurd. George Hurd was a native of
Monroe, Connecticut, was a carpenter and join-
er by trade, and died in the prime of life, at
the age of thirty-four years. Children of
George and Sally Hurd : Lewis C, Sarah M.,
Harriet I., Margaret H.. Frederick, i\Iartha,
who died young. Sally (Way) Hurd lived to
the advanced age of ninety-five years. Mrs.
Morris resides in Woodburv at Hotchkissville.
Mr. and ^Nlrs. Morris had one child, George
Franklin, mentioned below.
(IV) George Franklin, son of Hobart
Hotchkiss Morris, was born September 21,
1844, in Hotchkissville. He attended the pub-
lic schools of his native town, and at the age
of si.xteen became bookkeeper for the firm of
Allen & Dayton, merchants, in the native vil-
lage. Four years later he went to jNIarshall,
Michigan, where after working for a year and
a half as clerk, he returned home. When he
returned to his native place, he was employed
as bookkeeper by R. J. Allen. After five years
he embarked in business with George M. Al-
len and remained for eleyen years. The firm
was dissolved and Mr. Morris worked for a
year in the office of American Shear and Knife
Company. He then became a partner in the
firm of Morris & Dawson, general merchants
at North Woodbury, and this firm continued
for nine years. He purchased his present
store, the old stand of R. J. Allen, in Hotch-
kissville, November i, 1893, and built up a
large and flourishing business. He has one of
the largest and best stores in this section and is
enterprising and progressive in his business
methods. Mr. Morris has been active in public
life. In politics he is a Republican. He was
town clerk of Woodbury for ten years and
auditor six years. He represented the town
in the general assembly of Connecticut in 1881
and 1901. In his first term he served on the
committee, on temperance, in the second on the
committee on new towns and probate districts.
He was for four years postmaster of North
Woodbury and for a number of years post-
master at Hotchkissville. He holds a com-
mission as notary public. Fle is one of the
incorporators of the Woodbury Savings Bank
and is a trustee of several estates. He is a
member of the Congregational Church and has
held the office of deacon since January 5, 1882.
He married, in 1868, Sophronia, born in
New York state, daughter of Francis Dawson.
Children: i. Carrie, born May 12, 1871 : mar-
ried Ryce L. Clark ; children : Mrginia, born
June 21, 1900; Morris Dawson, September 30,
1905 ; Alary Esther, April 24, 1907.. 2. Hobart
Dawson, May 11, 1879; educated in the pub-
lic schools and Wilbraham Seminary : associat-
ed in business with his father.
Richard Goodman, immi-
GOODMAN grant ancestor, came from
England and settled first in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a
proprietor in 1633. He was admitted a free-
man. May 14, 1634, and brought a suit in
Plymouth court, March 4, 1638-39. He re-
moved to Hartford, Connecticut, with Rev.
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Mr. 1 looker's company and was one uf tlic
tirst sctllt-rs there. Later he removed to Had-
ley, Massacluisttts. and was killed hy the In-
dians in Kinj,' Philip's war. April i, i(>j(>.
Jle married, at Ilartfcird, Dccemher S, i'>5<;,
^[ary Terry, and administration on his estate
was granted her September 26. 1676. Chil-
dren: jolin, Uirn Octoher 13, 1661 ; Richard.
Inrcli 23, i(i<)3. nientit)ne<i below; Stephen,
rhruary 6, 1^)64: .Mary, .\ovember 5, if>i>$,
iiuirricd John .Voiilc ; Thomas. March 20,
i(i/)S. died yomiij: Mli/alieth, I'lbruary 5, i(>7i,
in.irried Jao.ib Warner; Thomas, September
I, I'i73; .Samuel, born May 5, 1^)75.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (i)
Goodman, was born March 2^, i<jCit^, in I lad-
Icy. .Massachusetts, died at Hartford. May 14,
1730. The inventory of his estate was file(l
June II. 1730, showing an estate of one hun-
dred and thirty-seven poimils, seven shillings
and eight pence. He married Abigail Pan-
try, born January 11, i(t~S-jq. died January
2f), 17118, (laughter of John, gramldaughler of
John, ami grcat-granddauglilcr of William
Pantry, (.hildren : Mary, baptized March 7,
1702. died young; Mary, baptized Moy 10,
1703; Richard, born Xovember 4, 1704; Tim-
othy. September 22, 1706, mentioned below ;
.Abigail, married Daniel Ensign ; listher, Iwrn
October 30. 170).
(HI) i imothy, son of Richard (2) Good-
man, was born September 22. 1706, died
March 12, 1786. He had land given him by
his grandfather, John Pantry. March 4. 1729,
in U'cst Hartford, near Farmington. The
Boston Clironkh- of May 2. I7^>8. states that
on .\j)ril 7. 1768. the house of Timothy Giood-
man in West Hartford was burned with all
the furniture and clothes, which were very
rich and costly, and that Jerusha, daughter
of Daniel Ensign, who liveil in the family, ten
years old, was burned to death. He married
( first t Max 7, 1735. Joanna Wadsworth, who
died March 10, I7'')8. aged fifty-three, daugh-
ter of Josei)li and Joanna XVatls worth and
grandflaughtcr of Captain Joseph Wadsworth.
of Charter Oak fame. He marrie<l (second)
November 20. 17*19. Widow Eli/.aiieth Wads-
worth. of Hartford. Children: Joamia ; Tim-
othy, baptized March 7. 17,^^1; Thomas, born
March 18. 1739: .\bigail, (\-tober 4. 1741:
Mary. February 12. 1744; Elizabeth. March
!6 1746; Richard, .\pril 10, 174S, mentioned
below; Mehitable (twin) baptized June 24,
1750, die«l May 2. 1758; Moses (twin), bap-
tized June 24. 1730.
(IN) Richanl (3). son of Timothy G<x>d-
man. was born .\pril 10, 1748. died in Wot
Hartford, in May. 1834. He was in the revo-
lution in Captain Seymour's company. He
married, in 1771. \.m
ruary i6. 1751
nary ?7. i7<>.>
7'5
■ rn IVb.
iR,
Ri.l
18.,,
Iht 1.;. ; , julv 12,
I77«: M' I. I'dv !-•
July r,, 1; . .
vember 1
vembcr 11. . , _ ,
Joatnia. t )ctol)er 2,
178*:); Childv, \-MVf
(\) A.
was lx)n:
He was 1'
and held
'«3-^ II'
sitt. born .u Gi.uilix. t oihu-iikiii. i
ID, 1780, died in Plainfield, .\iw li-
vemlx-r 13, i8<>S, daughter 01 \
(Cole) C'ossilt. Childrin: Edu
cember 10, 1805, died Jidy 2?^ i,
March 14, J809; Julia. June 1 1-
uel, Iwrn June 12, 1818. died .\l: ,:
Aaron Cossitt. mentioned below.
(\'I) Aaron Cossitt. s«^)n of A.ir. •
man, was lK)rn in W • '" ' 5.
1822, died July 29, 1" .f
thirteen, in 1835. In li-
ner's book store in liartinrd. In 1H41 iie went
to Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, to frd;c a posi-
tion in the house o|>etu'd there h: cs
& Coinjiany. but returneil the i .ir
and went into p.irtiic^'''' '■ 1-
ployer under the firm 1-
man. In 1848, he b 1-
terest in the firm and Ciiniiiu. il
1852, when he embarked it) the ; —s
in Xew York City. He was oiu- "i tin' ttg-
inal stockholders and directors in the Phm-nix
Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford,
and became its president in 1875, having se-
cured a controlling interest in its stock. In
18S9 the company was reorgam'zed and he s«:>Id
out and dissolved his connection with the
company. I'roni tli.Tt f- '^ ' • ' '"-nn
lived (|uietl\. giviuL; hi'- n to
private interests atiil t.> ; k.
He was a mem1)er of the luilcpt ■>{
( )dd Fellows and the Fn-e .tp"! ,1-
sotis. in St. Joli:
a member of '
pany in il" <•
of the II <n
the staff - a
memlKT ol liiii:i> t.hu:i.li. I k- lu.iriitd. .\pril
to, 1857, .\nnic M. Johnston, l)orn in Xew
7i6
CnxXFXTICUT
York City, daughter of Robert R. and Mary
Sears (Hatch) Johnston, and tliought to be
descended from Dr. John Johnston, who came
from Scotland in 1685 and settled at Perth
Amboy, New Jersey. One of her early an-
cestors was John Alden, of Plymouth, who
came in the "Mayflower". Children : Eniilie,
married Rev. Richard Wright, of Windsor
Locks; Edward, died 1872; Annie G., mar-
ried Rev. John F. Plumb, of New Mil ford,
Connecticut ; Mary A., Richard J., mentioned
below.
(VII) Richard Johnston, son of Aaron Cos-
sitt Goodman, was born in Hartford, March
23. 1875. He was educated in the public and
high schools of his native town, and at Yale
College, graduating in 1896, and from the Yale
Law School in 1899. During his last year at
the Law School he also practiced law in New
Haven. He was admitted to the bar in Jan-
uary, 1899, and began the practice of his pro-
fession at Hartford in October, 1899. Since
1905 he has been associated with Leslie W.
'Newberry under the firm name of Newberry
& Goodman. In addition to this he is the
president and general manager of the Bush
Manufacturing Company of Hartford, manu-
facturers of automobile radiators and auto
parts. This corporation was organized in Ap-
ril, 1908, and has been very successful. -His in-
terest in politics began at an early age, and
his activity in party matters began immedi-
ately after his graduation from college. In
1903 he was elected to the common council,
serving two terms ; was on the Republican
town committee from January, 1904, to Jan-
uary, 1908, and has served as health commis-
sioner since 1908. He is a member and vestry-
man in Trinity Church (Episcopal). He is
prominent in Masonic circles, being a member
of St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, and of Washington Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Hartford. He is a mem-
ber of the Connecticut Historical Society, So-
ciety of Colonial Wars, State of Connecticut,
Municipal Art Society, Hartford Club, Hart-
ford Golf Club. University Club of Hartford,
Republican Club, Graduates Club of New Ha-
ven and Yale Club of New York. Mr. Good-
man enlisted as a private in Company K, First
Infantry, Connecticut National Guard, in 1899.
He was made second lieutenant in November,
1902; captain. December, 1902; major, 1907;
lieutenant-colonel. November, 1908, which po-
sition he still holds. He was an aide on the
staff of grand marshal General Chafifee at the
inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt as presi-
dent of the LTnited States. He has always
taken an active interest in out-door sports, be-
ing especially fond of boating, fishing, tennis.
and horseback riding. His home is at 834
Asylum Avenue, Hartford. He is unmarried.
(The Sears Line).
The first edition of the Sears genealogy gave
what purported to be the English ancestry of
the family, but the second edition by Samuel
P. May, in 1890, shows that the ancestry was
conjectural and erroneous. The parentage and
ancestry of Richard Sears, American immi-
grant, have yet to be established. The sur-
name spelled Sares, Scares, Sayer, Seers and
Seir, in this country, and many other variations
in England are to be found in the records.
The surnames Sawyer and Sayer furnish al-
most identical variations in spelling and make
the work of the genealogist very difficult.
There is a belief in the family that the Sears
family is of Norman origin. The eastern par-
ishes of London and vicinity had many fami-
lies of this name about 1600. The name is
common in the islands of Guernsey and Jersey,
from which many emigrants came with the
early settlers at Marblehead and vicinity.
(I) Richard Sears, immigrant ancestor, was
a taxpa3-er in Plymouth colony as earlv as
1632. He removed to Marblehead, where he
was a landowner in 1637, but i-eturned to the
Plymouth colony about 1638, and settled at
Yarmouth. He took the freeman's oath June
7, 1653. Commissioners were appointed to
meet at his house, on Indian ai?airs, October
26, 1647. He was one of the settlers and foun-
ders of Yarmouth. He was buried August 26,
1676. His widow Dorothy was buried March
19, 1678-79. Children: Silas, died at Yar-
mouth, January 13, 1697-98; Paul, born 1637-
38, mentioned below ; Deborah, born at Yar-
mouth, September, 1639, died August 17,
1732.
(II) Captain Paul, son of Richard Sears,
was born probably at Marblehead, Massachu-
setts, in 1637-38, after February 20, and died
at Yarmouth. February 20, 1707-08. He took
the oath of fidelity in 1657. He was captain
of the militia at Yarmouth, and was in the
Narragansett war. He was one of the original
proprietors of Harwich, which was laid out
between Bound Brook and Stony Brook as
Wing's Purchase. He married, at Yarmouth,
in 1638, Deborah Willard, baptized at Scituate,
September 14. 1645, died May 13, 1721, daugh-
ter of George Willard. Her mother was prob-
ably Dorothy Dunster. Children : jNIercy,
born July 3, 1659; Bethia, January 3, 1661-62,
died July 5, 1684 ; Samuel, January, 1663-64,
mentioned below ; Daughter, 1666, perhaps
Lydia. who married Eleazer Hamblin ; Paul,
June 13, 1669: , October 24, 1672,
probably Mary, who married . Colonel John
(Ma^
' )NNELT1CLT
^«7
Kti'iwlcs: Aim. M.ircli .'7. H'J.v 'l'»ci Nuvcni-
liir 14. 1-45: J.-hii. if.;7-7H."(licd May 24,
171S; Daniel. I'lSj-.S^, <licd .Xiij-ust 10. 175*1.
(Ill) Captain Samuel, son of Captain Paul
Sears, was Ixirn at Varmoiitli in January.
i<rfiV'>4, died January S, 1741-42. He was oiic
of tlic earliest inhal)itants of Harwich. His
first linuse there was just over the line that
separates the part of Harwich, which is ix.w
West Mrcwster. from East Dennis. It stood
until after i8<x). and was occupied hy his sons.
I lis w ill was dated April 7, 1740. He was con-
stahle in 1702, lieutenant 170*1. and later ca|>-
tain. He married Mercy Ma><). Imrn ir/14,
<Hed JaiMiary jo. i748-4«^, dau>;hter of Dea-
con Samuel and Tamzin ( Lum[ikin ) .Mayo,
and jjranddauj,diter of Rev. John .Mayo; chil-
dren: Haimah. Imrn July 1. 1*1X5; .Sauuicl,
Se|iteinher 15, 1*187; Nathaniel. Septemher J.?,
i*>8<): Tantseii. Xoveniher i.v i*><ji, ilied July
17, 17*11; Jonathan, Septenil)er .^ I'XA^; Caji-
tain Joseph, July 15, 1695; Joshua, Slay 3,
l*Hj7; Judaii, ( )ctol)er 2y), ifxji). mcntiimed In
low ; John. July 18, 1701 ; Scth, May 27, 170^ .
P.cnjamin, June i*'i. 170*'!.
( I\') Jutlah. son of Captain Samuel Sears,
was Ixirn < )ctol)er 2y, iCK)i), died at Rochester,
.Massachusetts, about 177<>. He lived in Har-
wich, now West nrewster. and his house was
standing recently. He removed to Rochester
and joined the church there in 17'H). and was
t\ thini^'man in I7*i4-<'i7. His will was dated
I'ehruary 5. 177.^ proved Septemher 2. I77<^>.
his son Judah being executor. He married, at
Yarmouth, in Xovcmlwr. 17.^1. Mary Paddock,
liorn 1714, daughter of Judah and Alice ( .M-
den I Paddock, grancldaughter of David Aldcn
and great-graixldaughter of John and Priscilla
(Mullens) .\Men. who came on the "May-
flower." Children : Ann. iKirn March 31, 1733 ;
Judah. N'ovenilxr H). 1734; Mary, l)aptizcd
November 7, 173'i. died young; .\ldcn, born
February 24, 1738-30; Nathan. June 18. 1741 ;
David. May 10. 1744; Richard. June 8. I74'»;
Mary. April 15. 1750. married, at Rochester,
November 13, 17^1*1. Jonathan Hatch, of Fal-
mouth, his son, .\lden Hatch, had a daughter,
.Mary Sears (Hatch) Johnston, whose daugh-
ter, .\nnie M. Johnston. marrie<i .\aron C.
(iixidman (sec Goodman \'I) ; Elizabeth, bap-
tized July 8, 1752; .Mice, married Charles
Church; Sarah, baptized March 30, 1755.
Klesworth, Elsworth, EIIc»worth and Av
worth.
, I , •».., I I ., ._ I. It ,.1. .1
K<
ail
Ellsvwiiii, II.
sided in ( anil
till.,.'.
Connecticut ..
Ixiught a hou"
Rivulet, near the oM null, uii wl1.1l w<t!> di
wards known as the t'lillrtt pl.iri* In 1^15;
1h. ■ ■ ■ •
I i
lc»-
ih,
hn
ih.
■n,
he
the
icr-
;l)e
•,hc
The surname Ellsworth is
F.1.I.S\\( >UTH .lerivcd from that of a
small village a few miles
from Cambridge. England. The village is on
a small stream once remarkable for its eels,
hence the name of the village, place of cols.
The name is spelled in various ways — Elswort,
liii.:.;.-. I'-' lliL i. • ■luu^ IK !.■ ;hc
|KMir of other colonies. 20.
I(.V. ' • T- • ■ '
a:
''
tcnibci 18. 1712. C iit)drt-ii . i 1)1-
cemlKT 5, I'l??: Elirilvib. ii.
i*>57; Mar\. ' " ' " lier
7. 1*1* .2: Ser^;. '-5;
Jonathan. Jiii.t -■ w ;
Lieutenant John. < icioIkt 7, i'.- 11.
.\pril 13. 1*174; I'.enjamin. J;ii ■7*1,
died April 14, i*><>i.
(H) Captain Jonathan Ellsworth, son of
Scrgear' ' " ' ' ""'" ■ ' ' '*''ii(|-
sor, Jill ily
record. ■ pt
a tavern and a small store ui \\ ds,
and was engageil in nianv snv, ,n-
tiircs. He was a r
but was of such w
by the name of "Hiv. .
tall and strong. His dr.. his
being thrown from .i ' 13.
1749. when he wa- 11. He
married. < ktober . rn Sep-
tember 10. '^'"5- "'<" N. ■^' i'"t «J, I"55'
<laughter of Tahan dranl. Cliildrcn: Jona-
than. l)orn March 11, i'>95-</>; Sarah, January
8, iTxjS; |ohn, 1701; Ciilcs, .August f>. 1703;
Mary. MnVch t. f7n*>: Esther. March 9. 1708;
I")avid, i7o<i. menlione<l below;
Hannal 10. 1713; Jonathan. Au-
gust 2^ ^ '-' ' ' '"'"
(HI ' of Cap-
tain Io> "> Wind-
7i8
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sor, August 3 (June 17, according to the fam-
ily Bible), 1709. He inherited from his father
a hundred pounds, and acquired a handsome
estate through his own industry. He was a
farmer. "He had much cunning, or quick wit,
and very sound judgment; was a selectman
nearly all his active life, and commanded a
company of Connecticut men at the Siege of
Louisburg, hence his title of Captain." He
died March 5, 1782. He married, July 8, 1740,
Jemima Leavitt, of Sulifield, born July 9, 1721,
"a lady of excellent mind, good character, and
pious principles," daughter of Joshua and Han-
nah Leavitt. She married (second) June 4,
1784, Captain Ebenezer Grant, and died Feb-
ruary I, 1790. Children: David, born March
27, 1741 ; Oliver, April 29, 1745, mentioned
below; Martin, January 12, 1750; Jemima,
March 13, 1751.
(IV) Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, son of
Captain David Ellsworth, was born in Wind-
sor, April 29, 1745. At an early age he was
placed under the instruction of Rev. Dr. Bel-
lamy, and in 1762 entered Yale College, re-
maining there two years. At Nassau Hill, now
Princeton, New Jersey, he attained high rank
as a scholar, and there received the degree of
A. B. in 1766. After his graduation, his father
placed him under the instruction of Rev. Dr.
Smalley, to educate him for the ministry. Af-
ter a year's study, however, he abandoned that
calling for the law, and studied first with the
first Governor Griswold of Connecticut. He
completed his course of reading with Judge
Root, of Coventry, and was admitted to the
bar of Hartford county, in 1771. The debts
which he incurred while studying he paid by
cutting and selling wood from land which he
owned, not being able to sell the land.
His father gave him a house and farm in
Bloomfield (then Wintonbury), and for about
three years he divided his time between farm-
ing and the law, the income from his practice
being very small. His skill in handling an im-
portant case given him by a neighbor secured
a verdict for his client and won him at once
a high reputation. His practice rapidly in-
creased, and in 1775 he was appointed attorney
for the state. He sold his farm and removed
to Hartford, and his practice soon became
larger and more remimerative than any of his
contemporaries in the state. His resolute will,
and power of concentration, together with the
concise statements of his cases, and his lucid
and forcible arguments, gained for him a com-
manding position at the head of his pro-
fession. He was a Whig in politics, and at
the beginning of the revolution represented
Windsor in the general assembly of Connecti-
cut. \\'hile in that bodv, he served activelv in
the militia, and was one of a committee of four
called the "Pay Table." This committee at-
tended to the military expenditures. In Octo-
ber, 1777, he was elected a delegate to the
continental congress, and served as a member
of the marine committee, acting as a board of
admiralty, and also on the committee of ap-
peals, and took a prominent part in all dis-
cussions and political measures. From 1780 to
1784, by yearly elections, he was a member of
the governor's council. In June, 1783, he left
his seat in congress, and although re-elected,
declined to serve. In 1784 he declined the ap-
pointment of commissioner of the treasury to
take the position of judge of the Superior
Court of Connecticut. He conducted the duties
of this office with rare ability and great repu-
tation until he was a member of the Federal
Convention at Philadelphia in May, 1877. In
this body he bore a distinguished part, and
became conspicuous as one of the ablest advo-
cates of the rights of the individual states.
To him we are largely indebted for the Federal
element of our constitution "by which so many
sovereign States are kept in distant activity,
while included under a higher sovereignty."
He moved in the convention to expunge the
word "National" from the constitution, and
substitute the words "Government of the
United States," and this was finally agreed to
without a dissenting vote. Upon the organiza-
tion of the new government at New York in
1789, Mr. Ellsworth was one of the senators
from Connecticut, and was appointed chairman
of the committee to organize the judiciary of
the United States. The original bill, in his
handwriting, passed with but slight alteration,
and its provisions are still in force. He was
particularly watchful over the treasury, and
was called the "Cerberus of the Treasury." He
was spoken of by John Adams as "the firmest
pillar of Washington's whole administration."
By common consent he was yielded precedence
in the Federal ranks in the senate, then com-
posed of the elite of the Republic. The mission
of John Jay to England in 1794 was due to his
suggestion. March 4, 1796, he was made the
successor of Mr. Jay as chief justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States, and by
an extensive course of study, freshened his
memory on points of law in which he felt him-
self deficient. His dignified bearing, courteous
impartiality and acknowledged ability won for
him everywhere the confidence and esteem of
the bar. In 1799 President Adams appointed
him one of a committee to negotiate with
France as an extraordinary commission to
avert a war between the two countries, if pos-
sible. Of the other members of the commis-
sion, Mr. Henrv declined to act, on account
Df/jJ U/^u/^r^
CONNECTICUT
7«9
of <ngc, and Mr. Ellswnrtli did so reluctantly,
but went to }-"ranci-, rcacliyif; tlicro .Marcli -j.
iS<)o. acconipaiiii'd by thi- two other uicuilH-rs
of the coininissioii. A tnaty was couchuled
wliicli niL-t willi much opixjsition from con-
gress, but which time has proved was wise.
Ju(I);;e [•'ilswortli's heahli liad l)ecn seriously
impaired, and travel only iiicreaseil his malady.
Me was carried to l'"n;;land on the "Ports-
month," an<l there to<»k the mineral waters at
r.atii. with some benefit, lii^ son ( )liver. wh'i
had accompanied him as secretary, returncti
home with his father's resi(.;nation of the office
of chief justice. Jud^e F.IIsworth sailed from
Bristol in April, 1801, and after a painful voy-
ap;c was laniled at I'oston. In iSt)J he was
again elected a member of the ii^overnor's coun-
cil which acted as a superior court of errors
in Connecticut, beinjj the final court of appeals
from all inferior state jurisdictions. Flere his
intluence was controlling. In May, i8*>7, he
was appointed chief justice of the Supreme
Court of Connecticut, but he resigned the office
soon. He died November 2f>, 1807, anil was
hurieil in the Windsor cemetery. A morm-
ment marks his grave. Judge Ellsworth was
tall and erect. His eyes were blue, large, tine
and jienetrating, and his brows were arched and
heavy. His expression was pleasant. His
manners were simple and unatTected, and his
bearing was dignified and courtly. He was
I)articular about his personal appearance, and
never hurried his toilet. In public he always
af)peareil in black silk stockings, with silver
knee buckles, and wore a fine ruftled shirt. His
silk justice's robe and powdered hair greatly
hcighteneil his natural advantages. His life
was regular and strictly temperate. Daniel
Webster once in the senate referred to Ells-
worth as "a gentleman who had left behind
him. on the records of the : • of his
country, pnxifs of the clear i-e and
of the utmost purity and i: :_ . charac-
ter." In 1700 he received the degree of LL.D.
from Yale College, and in 1707 the same de-
gree from Dartmouth and Princeton.
Judge Ellsworth married. Dcccmljcr to,
177.2. .\bigail Wolcott. lM->rn February S. 1755.
died .\ngnst 4, iSiS. daughter of William.
Esq., and .\bigail Wolcott. Children, l>orii in
Windsor: .Abigail, bom August if>. 1774:
Oliver. October .?3. 177(1. died May 20. 1778:
Oliver, .\pril -'7. 1781: Maior Martin, .\pril
'7' i"'*'3 : William, June 25. died July 24. 1785 :
Frances, August 31. 178^1; Delia. July 2^,
178(1: William Wolcott. November 10, 1791.
mentioned below: Hon. Henry Lcavitt (twin),
born November 10. 1701.
(\') Ciovenior William Wolcott Ellsworth,
son of Oliver Ellsworth, was born in Wind-
..i;h
;cxt
and Ai
of the
M>. «1...M
none at tl
:lul lime
I bar. wait
tins tunc .Mr. I'.liswortii had ai r.ic-
tice of his own and lie mntji- t,,|ly
to practice in Han ■ He
was a Wliig in jvi! ■ .in-
gress in 1827. and
at the end of the •
legislative record v
self and satisfactory lu U\>> c>iUAtitueni>. A> a
nl)er of the iiuliriarv mmmitto*' he was
ef.
linst
He
i.urs
To
_ due the
extension of the copvright law. He was a
I" ■ ■ ■ • ■ ■ • ' ■ ^ • -
memi
active i
feet P'.
the Niil
was on the coinmr
of the L'nite<l .Stat<
him, more than to any wilici sii.iii.
Tevenne tor the govemmeiil. Krinrmng lo
Hartford in t8't. h<- rc««(nvd fiv pnietirc of
law. and it \' >' in
18^8 he wa- late
f.-- ihy
execiiliw Willi i..iisi'ici;
Dnrinij this jioriod he
rr-
hief
.ind
bv the legislature a jufigc ni the ^ui>t.rn>r
Court and of the Supreme Court of Errors. He
remained on the licnch as an associate judge
of the Supreme Court until i8''ii. when he re-
tired by age limitation. '"'■•" < ■" .' i'..'<..rc
CONNECTICUT
and still possessed of his great intellectual
powers, he retired to private life, though he
never ceased to take a keen interest in public
afTairs. He received the honorary degree of
LL.D. from Yale College in 1838. He was
professor of law in Trinity College, Hartford.
He was one of the original incorporators and
at the time of his death president of the board
of directors of the American Asylum for the
Education and Instruction of the Deaf and
Dumb, at Hartford. He was president of the
board of directors of the Hartford Retreat for
the Insane.
The following estimate of his character and
delineation of his personality is from a sermon
by Rev. George H. Gould, pastor of the Centre
Church of Hartford, preached at the funeral
of Governor Ellsworth :
"He was a Puritan of the best stock. His
honesty was of perfect whiteness. Rufus Choate
once spoke of him, in a speech before a legis-
lative committee of Massachusetts, as 'a man of
hereditary capacity, purity, learning and love of
the law,' adding, 'If the land of the Shermans,
and Griswolds, and Daggetts, and Williams, rich
as she is in learning and virtue, has a sounder
lawyer, a more upright magistrate or an hon-
ester man in her public service, I know not his
name.' In Judge Ellsworth were hereditary qual-
ities of great mental and moral worth. Like his
father, the Chief Justice, he was remarkable for
the simplicity of his tastes and habits. In man-
ner he was dignified; in person he was tall and
finely proportioned with as fine a personal pres-
ence and bearing as any man of his time; he
was a good speaker and had a fine voice; in
conversation he was earnest and sincere, and all
his intercourse was marked by kindness and in-
tegrity of nature. The crown of his enduring
character was his Christian walk and conversa-
tion. He early professed Christ and ever after,
through all his membership in the old Centre
Church of Hartford, was an humble and faithful
follower of his Lord.
"He delighted in theological studies and dis-
cussions and took a very active part in relig-
ious movements. He was a prominent friend
of the great charitable and missionary enter-
prises ; was much interested in Sunday schools
and even after he had attained a high official
position, he continued his duties as a teacher
in the school connected with his church. From
1821 until his death, a period of forty-seven years,
he held the office of Deacon in the Centre
Church. In all things he was an admirable rep-
resentative of New England, a man of old-time
integrity, sincerity, solidity of character."
Governor Ellsworth married, September 14,
1813. Emilv Webster, born August 4, 1790,
died August 23, 1861, daughter of Noah Web-
ster, the lexicographer (see Webster VI).
Governor Ellsworth died January 15, 1868.
Children, born in Hartford : i. Pinckney Web-
ster, December 5, 1814; mentioned below. 2.
Emily, September 27, 1816; married. .Kpril 2".
184T, Rev. Abner Jackson, president of Trin-
ity College. 3. Harriet, July 4, 1818 ; married,
December 23, 1845, Rev. Russell S. Cook, sec-
retary of the American Tract Society ; she died
February 24, 1848: 4. Oliver, September 13,
1820. 5. Elizabeth, November 17, 1822: died
January 20, 1823. 6. Elizabeth, June 8, 1824;
married, December 14, 1853, Hon. Waldo
Hutchins, congressman from twelfth New
York district, lawyer of New York City.
(VI) Dr. Pinckney Webster Ellsworth, son
of Governor William Wolcott Ellsworth, was
born in Hartford, December 5, 1814. He was
descended from Governor William Bradford
of Plymouth : of John Steele, who was in Hart-
ford before Hooker and other pioneers of Mas-
sachusetts and Connecticut. He attended the
public schools and entered Yale College, from
which he was graduated in the class of 1836.
He took up the study of medicine and attended
medical schools in Philadelphia and New York,
graduating from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of New York with the degree of
M.D. in 1839. His medical studies were after-
ward continued in Paris, London and Dublin.
He settled in Hartford in 1843 and began to
practice his profession, becoming in a few
years one of the leading surgeons of the state.
He was the first to perform a surgical oper-
ation with the use of anaesthetics, outside of a
dental office. He was in partnership with Dr.
Amariah Brigham, who became subsequently
superintendent of the Retreat for the Insane
in Hartford, and later superintendent of the
Insane Asylum at Utica, New York. Dr. Ells-
worth was for a considerable time one of the
visiting physicians of the Retreat. He was one
of the organizers and a prominent member of
the City Medical Society of Hartford, and a
leading member of the Hartford County and
Connecticut Medical Societies, and honorary
member of the New York State Medical So-
ciety. During the civil war he was appointed
brigade surgeon by Governor Buckingham,
and served on the staff of General Isaac T.
Stevens of the Army of the Potomac, who was
shot and killed at the head of his command in
the second battle of Bull Run. Dr. Ellsworth
was examiner of recruits for the service, and
made personal examination of about nine thou-
sand soldiers. Later he held the office of pen-
sion examiner, in Connecticut, for nine years
under Presidents Johnson. Grant and Cleve-
land. He was a member of the Centre Church
of Hartford for many years. In politico he
was always independent and never sought pub-
lic office of any kind, and even in the church
he alvvavs declined to hold office. A lifelong
student, not only of medical, but of theological
and philosophical subjects, his learning was
profound. He was es]5ecially interested in
reading and comparing the Greek scriptures.
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7.' I
He wrote a numl)cr of papers 011 his tlu-oloKical
research aiul pubHshed "Iinmamicl. God with
lis." etc. The busiest part of the doctor's life
A. IS spent in his home and office f>n the site
1 the F'hoenix Life Insurance Company's prcs-
i lit ortlcc huildin)^^.
Me married (first), Octoljcr 11. 1842, Julia.
horn February. 1822, died March 18. 1854,
l.iii^liter of Jesse Sterlinfj, of liridReixirt. one
I the first treasurers of tlie Housatonic Rail-
road Company. He married (second) Decem-
ber 7, 1857. Julia Townseiid. born at New
Haven. March 5. 1837, ""^^ livinj,' at Hartford,
i.iughter of Lucius K. Dow. Child of first
wife: I. William SteriinK. born .-\upiist 11,
i>!4<j: died April lO, 1832. Children of the
' cond wife: 2. Julia Sterling. Itorn June 27,
1S60; married, December 21. 1882, .\upustus
Julius Lyman, son of I'.ishop Lyman, of Ashe-
ville. North Carolina. 3. Emily Webster, born
May 21, 1864. 4. Harriet, born June i^^), 18^)3;
!icd October 31. i8r>8. 5. Wolcott Webster,
horn October 23. 1867. prarluate of Vale Col-
leU'e. (<. Ernest IJradford. born .April 2~. !870.
7. Edith Townsend, born February 4, 1872.
V Alice Greenleaf, born October 6. 1877.
(The Webster Line).
John Webster, the immigrant ancestor,
'.IS one of the original settlers of Hartford,
' ■iimecticut. He was magistrate of the colony
rom 1639 to 1639; deputy governor in 1655.
iiid govcrnf>r in ](^-,f^. During the next three
ears he was first inagistrate of the colony, or
1 l)ublic, as his descendant Noah Webster calls
1. On account of a controversy with the min-
uter of Hartford, the settlement af Hadlcy,
Massachusetts, was plamied and John Webster
e.'uled the list of fifty-nine signers who agreed
■ ' locate there. His son Rohert was another
Mgner. Governor Webster lodged at North-
ampton, Massachusetts, fell sick soon after-
ward, but recovered and became one of the
judges associated with John Pynchon and
Samuel Chapin. His home was on the east
side of the highway, near the late residence of
' ieorgc Wyllys. in Hartford. He died April
;. i'>83, and was buried at Hadlcy. His will
was dated June 23, i<)39. He gave to his
wife, .\gnes. the use of his estate at Hart-
ford during her life, and he also bequeathed
property to his four sons. Oiildren : Robert.
mentioned below : Mary, marrii-d Hunt.
who died in 1639: Mathew settled in Farming-
ton; William, who-ic wife was tried for witch-
raft in 1(^84-83, married. 1^)71. Mary Reeves,
11(1 roided at lladley: Tboma-;. married Abi-
;;ail .Mexander: .\nne. settled at Northfield.
Slassachusetts. married John Marsh, of Hail-
lev.
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married John Seymimr; Sarah, marrii
Mvgatt.
"(Ill) John (2). v.n .
nah Webster, was Ix'rn in 1
•'.
and died in i^k>4- ' '
1:
John, married, 171 -■
in
1733, lived in Southii..,.
• n-
ezer. lived to advanced
in
1728, married Elizalu-th \
rn
1693. mentioned below; Sarah; .Aim.
Abigail.
married, 1710. Jacob Merrill.
fl\') Daniel, son of John (21 " '
A as
bom in i'>93, at Hartford, aiv
in
1763. He married, i-i. \l
■«•
Children : Daniel,
;n
March 23, 1721, mo
.di.
June I, 1724, died in .M
Abram,
died in 1731 ; Miriam, \>
1. I7.29.
married ( first ) William
...- .,,.1 1
Marsh, of New II
age at home of her son.
\\'cst Hartford: Daniel. Sc|.itmU;r
died in 178^: Flihn. died in voulh
(V) \ '
logg) W
t;ei.
.h
25. •-^'-
one years seven niontiis
Mercy Steele, dauglurr
Children, U>rn at I '
November 8. I74<>;
den. and <lie.! '
l)orn in 1731
( second ) D'
Eunice Chibl-
in 173'': man
removed to |lnnli\
ruarv 21. 1821. 4
i75«-"' ' '■
tember j
ruflf; (-.
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(third)
la, l>orn
'r\ , who
• 'eb-
irt.
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A Xijali
; I > and
Mercv (Steele) Webster, was born in West
722
CONNECTICUT
Hartford, October i6, 1758; married, October
26, 1789, Rebecca Greenleaf, of Boston. He
served as a private in his father's company in
the campaign against General Burgoyne, in
the fall of 1777. He studied law and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1781, but he preferred
teaching to law, and in 1782 opened a classical
school at Goslien, New York. In 1783 he pub-
lished at Hartford the "First Part of a Gram-
matical Institute of the English Language,"
followed by a second and third part in the
' two years following. He published "The
American Spelling Book" in 1783, and JVin-
throp's Journal, which until then had been
preserved only in manuscript. He wrote vari-
ous political essays in the Connecticut Courant
in 1785, entitled "Sketches of American Pol-
icy." He was interested in public questions,
and in 1785 visited the southern states to ad-
vocate the enactment of state copyright laws.
In 1786 he delivered a course of lectures in the
principal cities and towns on subjects relating
to the English language, and these lectures
were published in 1789 under the title of "Dis-
sertations on the English Language." In 1787
he taught English grammar and kindred sub-
jects at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After the
Federal constitutional convention adjourned,
he published a work entitled "Examination of
the Leading Principles of the Federal Consti-
tution." In 1788 he published for one year
the American Magacinc, but the venture was a
failure finanically. Returning to Hartford in
1789, he took up the practice of his profession
and gained a prominent position at the bar. In
1793, at the request of the president, he estab-
lished a daily newspaper in New York City
to support the administration. This paper was
called the Minerva, and after a short time he
added a semi-weekly called the Herald. These
were subsequently called the Commercial Ad-
vertiser and the Netv York Spectator. The
Advertiser is still published, though the name
was changed again to The Globe a few years
ago. Webster's articles in these papers under
the nom-de-plume "Curtius" ably defended
Jay's treaties and other controverted policies
of the young government.
In 1798 he removed to New Haven, and in
1799 he published "A Brief History of Epi-
demics and Pestilential Diseases" in two octavo
volumes. In 1802 he published a work on the
rights of neutrals in time of war, and "Histor-
ical Notices of the Origin and State of Bank-
ing Institutions and Insurance Offices," and in
1807 his "Philosophical and Practical Gram-
mar of the English Language." He had in
1806 published a "Compendious Dictionary,"
and in 1807 commenced the great labor of his
life, "A Dictionary of the English Language,"
the first edition of which appeared in 1828 in
two quarto volumes, and a second in 1840 in
two royal octavo volumes. While preparing
this stupendous work he lived at .Amherst,
Massachusetts, and he was one of the most
active and influential founders of Amherst Col-
lege. He was for a number of years a repre-
sentative to the general court from Amherst.
He had served his district in New Haven in
the Connecticut legislature several terms previ-
ously, and for a time was judge of one of the
state courts and one of the aldermen of the
city. He returned to New Haven in 1822 and
visited Europe in 1828. Early in 1843 lie Pub-
lished "A Collection of Papers on Political,
Literary and Moral Subjects," and an elabor-
ate treatise on "The supposed change of tem-
perature in Winter." His last literar}' labor
was the revision of the Appendix to his dic-
tionary, completed a few days before his death.
He died at New Haven, May 28, 1843. Of
the "Elementary Spelling- Book" nearly fifty
million copies have been sold, and during the
preparation of the dictionary the income from
this work supported his family. His dictionary
was revised after his death by his son-in-law,
Professor Goodrich, and from time to time by
others. The Merriams of Springfield have
been the publishers for many years. In 1823
he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from
Yale College. Dr. Webster's works, besides
those mentioned, were : "History of the
Ignited States," revised in 1838 ; "Letters to a
Young Gentleman Commencing His Educa-
tion," published in 1823; "Manual of L'seful
Studies," in 1832 ; "The Prompter," and a
"History of Animals."
In many respects Dr. Webster was the most
famous scholar of his period in American liter-
ature. He performed a work of lasting value
to the English-speaking people and blazed the
way for other lexicographers to follow. That
he was a genius cannot be disputed. His ver-
satility in literature was as remarkable as his
learning was profound.
Children of Noah and Rebecca (Greenleaf)
Webster : i. Emily, born August 4, 1790 : mar-
ried William Wolcott Ellsworth, September
14. 1813 (see Ellsworth family). 2. Frances
Juliana, February 5, 1793: married, October i,
1816, Chauncey Allen Goodrich. 3. Harriet,
April 6, 1797; married (first) Edward H.
Cobb, of Portland, May 22, 1816, and (sec-
ond) July 26, 1825, William Chouncy Fow-
ler. 4. Mary, January 7, 1799; died February
28, 1819; married Horatio Southgate, of Port-
land. 5. William Greenleaf, September 15,
1801 ; married Rosalie Eugenia Stuart, of A^ir-
ginia. May 5, 1831, and removed in 1833 to
Cincinnati, Ohio. 6. Eliza Steele, December
CONNECTICLT
I'i
21, 1803; iiijirricil, SciiU-mber 5, 1823, Henry
Jones. 7. Henry liradford, Xovcnibcr 20,
1806; (lied aj^ctl ten weeks. 8. Lmiis-i. Xnril
12. i8<>S.
The name ^l \\ liitlle>L\
Will III. K.SEV was first taken Ijy the
|ie()|)le livini^ in Cam-
bridgeshire, Knpland. on the Whittlesea l-'ens,
at no later date than the tenth ccntnry. In
the year 1 187 William Whittlesey led a for-
lorn hope at the siefje of .\crc. He followed
his kins' •" t'''" elTort to rcscnc the tomb of
Christ from the Jews, and was one of abimt
fifty men who withstood the famine of fire and
water and returned to finj^land with the kinp,
by whom he was knighted in i i()o. In 1 192
he fell at the battle of Malta. Cambridgeshire
was the birthphce of the iMiglish and .Ameri-
can families of the name of Whittlesey and
there are still many of the name living in that
comity. The coat-of-arms of the linglish fam-
ily is described as follows: .Aznre; a fess. er-
mine, between three escaloj) shells. ( )r. An
Esqnire helmet on shield. Crest : Lion ram-
pant. .Motto: Animo ct fide (Courage and
Faith ) .
( I ) John Whittlesey, immigrant ancestor,
was born Jidy 4, 1623, in Cambridgeshire,
England, near Whittlesea, the son of John,
born in 1593. and Lydia (Terry) Whittlesey.
The lalter's mother's name was Wesley, ami
she and her husband were married in London,
October, iri2i-22. John Whittlesey, the son.
came to .Xirerica with the Lords .Say and Seal
Company in i')35. The company landed in
Boston. Massachusetts, but as early as 1636
were in Saybrook. Connecticut. The records
of Savbrook from this time to 1670 were de-
stroyed by fire, but the Whittlise\s arc men-
tioned as among the iidiabiiants of Middlesex
county. Connecticut, in 1(148. In 1662 John
Whittlesey and William Hudley. of Saybrook,
contracted with the town to keeji a ferry across
the Connecticut at Saybrook from Tilly's
Point. They were also to build a road to the
point and a b.orse canoe or boat large enough
to carry three horses at once and such passen-
gers as desired to cross. In if>77-78-79 John
Whittlesey is mentioned as buying lands. He
represented the town of Saybrook in the gen-
eral assembly between 1644 and i'>85. and was
also elected in If')</v97-t>^-i703. In if>78 be
was afipointed collector of minister's rates, and
again in iC>8i-82: townsman in ir>88-89-97. In
ir>84 he was oi'e of the attorneys, ^a lister in
ir»85. and frequently one of a committee to
surve\ and lav out Innd and to seat people in
the meeting house. He was made freeman.
.\pril |. 1 -o I \V\^ lion^c u:is Iniill re'\r the
ferry, on tiu- ui-i Ii.hik "I 'iir "le
site remained in the family until
He married, :ii ^i'. l.t... ,k 1 ;,
Ruth. l)orn \\' \.
liam and Jane
William DudU
erl\ .'^lK•en, in ;.>
(inillord, < ■
Henry \\ 1
Hopkins 1 1 ; :-
man. of W *jrtx-n, AuKxist 24. M>3"-
He was : \e in the general court
for Cuilfoni. .in.i .ii.d .March 16. 1683-84. His
wife died Mav i. i')74. He was the son of
David Dudley', of D:.'L -- ■ v,,rr..v,
1^)30. a wheelwright .s
the son of Squire Tb' .it
I58<». of Darking. His wiu .■> n.ni.i iwi.'*
VVhite. He was married in Km 2 and died in
1649. He was • ' ' ' ' " \t-
ert Dudley, b rt
, Dudley was_thi. a'
Leicester, who married i third » I h-
tcr of Sir Francis Knolles. wi'l -^t
Devcreux. Earl of Essex. He \' i
John Dudley, Duke of Northun 11
1502. beheaded 1533. married Lii.. i...ii...id,
iKirn 1504. died 1555. daughter of .Sir Edward
(iuilford. John Dudley was the son of Edward
Dudley, born I4(>2. beheadetl 1510, married
Elizabeth, heir to Sir Edward tiray. Edward
Dudley was the son of .Sir John Dudley, born
at .\rimdel Castle, .Sussex county, «licd 1500,
married Elizabeth Bran.shot. ilie<l I4'»" ^'^
John Dudley was the son of Sir John
Lord Dudley. K. <i.. Iwrn I4Q<>. died 14-
ried Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Mtrklc),
Knight. John Whittlesey died .\pril 15. 1704.
Children: John. l)orn December 11, i'V.5;
Stephen. .\\ir\\ 3. UHij : I-'benezcr. DeccmlHT
II, ifVx): Joseph. June 13. i'>7i ; Josiah, .\ii-
gxi.st 21, 1673: Jabcz, March 14, 1^75: David,
Tune 20. 1^)77: Eliphalet, July 24, 1670: Kuth,
April 2V i(>8! : Sarah. .Mav 2?., 1^183: Sam-
uel. i^STi.
(II) Eliphalet. son of John Whittlesey, was
born July 24. if)79. at Saybrook. In 1707 he
removed to Xewington and purchaseil seventy-
two acres of land from his brother Jabez. On
this land he erected his house and bam and
started farming. In 1723 and 1727 he was
one of the "prudential committee" in the so-
cietv. His name a|)pears on the list of Xew-
ington church members in 1747, on the com-
mittee to suiierinteml letting the school money
during the year 1748; on the conimittee to
"seat the meeting house." t-^rt. He married,
Decemlx-r I, 1702. Mary P'" '■ —' '^' • v}.
1677. at Saybrook. He die.
and hi< wife. March 22. I75>
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CONNECTICUT
born October i. 1703; Hannah, May 13, 1711 ;
Eliphalet, mentioned below.
(lllj Eliphalet (2), son of Eliphalet (i)
Whittlesey, was born in Newington, May 10,
1714. He was a farmer by occupation, and
his farm was one of the best known and most
productive in the vicinity of Newington. He
was also prominent in public affairs. In 1761
he removed with his family to Washington,
Connecticut, and united with the church there
the same year. He was soon after chosen
deacon. In May, 1775, he was appointed a
member of the general assembly from Kent,
Connecticut, also at a special session held at
Hartford, by order of the governor, called to
provide for the defense and safety of the in-
habitants and to supply troops. He took an
active and important part in the colonial wars.
October 13, 1748, he was commissioned by the
general assembly to be ensign of the Tenth
Company or train band in the Sixth Regiment
of the colony of Connecticut, and on May g,
1 75 1, was commissioned lieutenant of the same
company and regiment. Alarch 7, 1756, he was
appointed and commissioned captain of the
Si.xth Company of the Fourth Regiment. Feb-
ruary 9, 1757, he was commissioned captain of
the Tenth Company of the Sixth Regiment,
and March, 1758, commissioned captain of the
Fourth Company in the First Regiment under
Phineas Lyman, colonel; 1759, captain of the
Fifth Company, First Regiment; 1760, captain
of Fifth Company, First Regiment. In 1760
he was placed at the head of a company which
was raised on the call for twenty-five hundred
men for Major-General William Shirley's com-
mand, to operate at Crown Point and Iroquois
Lake. He participated in the battles and re-
mained in service during the war. In the
campaign of 1757, which- resulted in the sur-
render of Fort William Henry to Montcalm's
forces. Captain Whittlesey had the command
of a picked company of one hundred men,
mostly from Wethersfield, Connecticut. In
1758, when Fort Edward was the base of oper-
ations, and Ticonderoga the objective point,
he was always in the thickest of the battles and
led his men with great bravery.
He married, December 16, 1736, Dorothy,
born December 24, 1716, died April 14, 1772,
daughter of Captain Martin Kellogg, who
settled in the first society of Wethersfield, but
afterwards removed to Newington. where he
died. As a boy he lived at Deerfield. Massa-
chusetts, with his father, stepmother and three
other children. During Queen Anne's war,
February 29, 1704, he was captured by the
Indians, together with his father and the other
children, but they were afterwards allowed to
return. He was several times captured, but
was returned. He was often employed by the
government as interpreter of the Indian lan-
guage at the Indian treaties. He was commis-
sioned captain in the Sixth Company of militia
of Wethersfield by the general assembly, and
in 1746 was engaged to be pilot for the ex-
pected British fleet in the St. Lawrence. In
1 75 1 he was the colony's agent to the chief of
the Mohawks to supply them with clothing.
He married, January 26, 1692, Dorothy Ches-
ter, died September 26, 1754. His father was
Martin Kellogg, born October i, 1660, prob-
ably at Farmington. He was often employed
as an Indian interpreter and was a courageous
and active man. He was a weaver by trade.
He survived many captures and much hard
treatment by the Indians.
He married (first) December 10, 1684,
Ann, daughter of Samuel and Mehetabel John-
son, born at Hadley, Massachusetts. February
22, 1667, died at Deerfield, July 19, 1689. Sam-
uel Johnson was born March 5, 1642, at Had-
ley, and was killed by the Indians at Deerfield,
September 8, 1675. Mehetabel, his wife, was
the daughter of Humphrey Johnson, born in
England, son of John Johnson, who came from
England in the fleet with John Winthrop, and
was a representative in the first general court,
1634, a member of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company, 1638. He lived in Rox-
bury, Connecticut, where he died September
30, 1659. Martin Kellogg married the third
time in 1732. His father was Joseph Kellogg.
Dorothy Chester, wife of Captain Alartin Kel-
logg, was the daughter of Stephen and Jemima
(Treat) Chester. Her father was born May
26, 1660, son of Captain John Chester, born
August 5, 1635, married, February, 1653,
Sarah Welles, born in 163 1, daughter of Gov-
ernor Thomas Welles, the fourth governor of
the Colony of Connecticut, 1655-58. He died
February 23, 1698, and his wife, December 12
or 16, 1698. He was the son of Leonard Ches-
ter, born July 15, 1610, married, in England,
1634, Mrs. Rlary (Sharpe) Wade, born about
1608. daughter of Nicholas Sharpe. He died
in Wethersfield, Connecticut, December 11,
1647. '"''f' t'''^ family arms are on his tomb
in the old Wethersfield burying-ground. His
wife died November 30, 1688. He was the
son of John Chester, of Blaby, England, who
married Dorothy Hooker, sister of Rev. Thom-
as Hooker, founder of Hartford, and daugh-
ter of Thomas Hooker, mentioned elsewhere
in this book. John Chester was the son of
Leonard and Bridgetta (Sharpe) Chester, and
grandson of Sir ^^''illiam Chester, baronet, of
London. Eliphalet Whittlesey died July 12,
1786, at Washington, Connecticut. Children:
Martin, born October 5, 1737; Lemuel. ^lay
CONNECTl'-
I'l, 1740: John, December 23. 1741, mcmiDHcd
below; Aniui, January J7, 1744; Abiier, May
I, 1746; Elijibalet, July 2. 1748: Daviil. Au-
gust 18, 1750; Asaph, May 12, 1753; Dorothy,
September 5, 1755; I'-lisha, January 8, 1758;
Roger, < >ctuber 6, 1760.
( I\) John (2), son of Eliphalet (2) Whit-
tlesey, was born at Xcwington. December 23,
1741. He removed in 17O1 with his father to
New Preston, Connecticut, lie left a diary
which shows that he served as a servant to
his fatlier in the colonial wars. His discharge
shows that he served for three years in his
faihir's CKUipaii). May 9, 175''. he assisted in
furwardiiii,'' stores fri>m Connecticut to tireen-
bush, opposite .\lbany, .New York, h'rom the
memoranda left by Mr. Whittlesey we tind that
the "spirit of the times'" and the "safety of
the people" jirednminated above all else in his
mind, and after placing; his farm in jicrlcct
working order, he devoted iiis alteiition tn the
revolution. In 177^) he was a private in Cap-
tain Tibbetts' company, August 18 to Septem-
ber 14. 177'). at New York, in Captain John
Ilinman's i. pn'|i;iiiy ; ( )ctobiT 28, he marcheil
Stanif'>ri!. ( ■ niiiccticut. in L'aptaiii Moselcy's
uipany. Xnvciuber '>, the re:,'imeiit was at
I l'>rse Neck; Xovember 12, marched to Rye:
'■ cember 2. was at Saw Pitts, under General
A 1 Mister. March 21, 1777, he was commis-
■ned ensign hy Jonathan Trumbull, and
served in the regiment of Lieutenant-Colonel
N. Parsons, lie recruited the (|uota of men
for New Preston and collected and forwarded
supplies and ammunition. After the revolution
he was a justice of the peace, and was re-
'I'cted to the Connecticut legislature for sev-
teen consecutive sessions, and was also a
member of the cotnmittee of safety. He was
chosen deacon of the church in 1788, but de-
clined to act. He was chosen and made a
member of the convention to ratify the Con-
stitution of the United States, and gave his
vote, January _v i"88.
He iTiarried. Novetnber 14, 1765, Mary, bom
August 24. 1745. at New Preston, died Sep-
tei^ber 30. 1802. daughter of Matthew and
Hannah Beale. Her father. Matthew Beale,
was born .Xjiril 13. 17 19. He inarried (first)
March 17. 1738, at New Preston, Hannah
Cogswell, and removed to Salisbury in 1792.
He tnarried (second) Hannah Sweezey. Sep-
tember I. 1777. and removed to Long Island.
His father. George Beale. was born in Eng-
land, 1675, died 17^10. He came to America
with his son Matthew when the latter was
eleven vears old. Hannah Cogswell was the
daughter of Edward and Hannah (Brown)
Cogswell, born at Ipswich. .\|iril 13. 1710. died
in 1776. of dumb ague. Her father. Edward.
wa~
th.
Job.
dren : Matthew
January 11. i-'
Chester. "
teml>er 2:
phalet, >'
1781 ; El.
(\) .\l.
tiesey, was bom ai
176^1. He practiced '
cut. ' '
rep'
att' I...
sitions with 11 1
was first presi.
tion. Me was a man of
skill in his profession, an'!
manners and princi- '
He married f tirst ) !
13, 1772, died .May 7.
ter of Ebenezer Russell an
White. He married (sc
1824. Mrs. Caroline H<1
March 25. 1773, widow ■
and Betsey ( Brownell )
Beale Whittlesey died Oct
dren : William .Augustus.
Whit-
A. M.
latthew
7. Chil-
t. 1796:
Eliza, .April 16, 1798; John. 1 i.l.:iiary 16, 1800;
Oliver, March 31, 1803: Marv Anna. Febniary
9, 1805; Amelia (tw: ' ... . i ,!;j
(twin) ; Ebenezer R
(\'I) Eljenezer 1\ jw
Beale Whittlesey, was bom at Danbury, Jan-
uary 30, 181 5. When fifteen ve?re of n^e he
went to New York, where 1 n-
ticeship to a jeweler, an! !e
for ten years. He then v d,
and became interested i' -'g
and the milk business. In • -e-
tumed to Danbury and assuiiicvl charge ui his
father's farm. He alsn Hid business as a con-
tractor and as - ' ' • ' ' xn. He
was associated !1 under
the firm name . Tliey
built a portion of the Fourth a\ in
New York City, and St. Jan. in
Danbury. In the early seventies .M:. \\ Imtle-
sey retired from active business, and devoted
his time to tbr -- • ''^ •— " He
was at one ti- t-
man and a mi i cs.
He was a memUi oi the i..'n^rt)4.iti.>nal
church and with "fher* nrtr^ini/ed the Second
C- 'to
tli( I>-
erii.;> .,..., :• ■■■ ty-
six vears. He was a man of integrity and
sound iudgment. He died October 6, 1892.
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CONNECTICUT
He married, at Newtown, Long Island, Febru-
ary 19, 1840, Ann Eliza, born January 16, 1822,
at Cairo, Greene county, Xew York, daughter
of Jacob and Permelia (Carmen) White. Her
mother, Permelia (Carmen) White, was the
daughter of George Washington and Betsey
( Buckbee) Carmen, of Westchester, New
York. On her father's side she was a direct
descendant of Peregrine White, of Plymouth.
Children : Frank, born January 20, 1841 ; Mat-
thew Beale, November 2, 1842; John Jacob,
November 12, 1844 ; Mary, December 23,
1846; William Augustus, February 21, 1849;
Elmira Carmen, August 9, 1851 : Frank Rus-
sell, August 28, 1858 ; Charles White, June 30,
1861 ; Granville, mentioned below.
(VII) Granville, son of Ebenezer Russell
Whittlesey, was born at Danbury, July 11,
1864. He studied law with Brewster, Tweedy
& Scott, and was admitted to the bar in Febru-
ary, 1889. He remained w-ith this firm until
1892, when he was made clerk of the city court.
He served in the latter capacity until March,
1893, when he became a member of the firm of
Tweedy, Scott & Whittlesey. He is a member
of the Sons of the American Revolution, of
the New England Society, New York, and of
the Congregational church. Danbury. In poli-
tics he is a Republican. He married, January
19, 1903, Julia Delliker, born September 29,
1876, daughter of Ebenezer and Julia (Del-
liker) Hill. Children: Granville, born in
Danbury, December 5, 1903 ; Julian Hill,
Greenwich, October, 1905.
William Beardsley, the
BEARDSLEY immigrant ancestor, was
born in England in 1605.
He came to this country in 1635 in the ship
"Planter" with his wife Mary, aged twenty-
six, children Mary, aged four, John, aged two,
and Joseph, aged six months. According to
the family tradition, he was a native of Strat-
ford-on-Avon, the home of Shakespeare, and
it is believed that he gave the name of Strat-
ford to the settlement in which he made his
home, now Stratford, Connecticut. One of his
descendants who settled in western New York
named the town in which he located Avon in
honor of the Beardsley who came with Rev.
Adam Blakeman from St. Albans, England,
and settled first at Hadley, Massachusetts. In
1638 he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, and
in the following spring to Stratford, of which
he was one of the first settlers. He was deputy
to the General Court seven years. He was a
mason by trade. His will was dated September
28, 1660, and proved July 6, 1661. His inven-
tory, dated February 13, 1660-01, amounted to
three hundred and thirty-three pounds fifteen
shillings eight pence. He died at the age of
fifty-si.x years, leaving several young children.
Children : i. Mary, born 163 1 ; married Thom-
as Wells. 2. John, born 1632; captain; died
November 19, 1718. 3. Joseph, born 1634;
mentioned below. 4. Samuel, born 1638 ; had
land in what is now Bridgeport. 5. Sarah, born
1640 : married, June 8, 1668, Obadiah Dickin-
son. 6. Hannah, born 1642; married Nathan-
iel Dickinson. 7. Daniel, born 1644 : died 1730.
8. Thomas, mentioned by Savage.
(II) Joseph, son of William Beardsley, was
born in 1634. He inherited half the estate of
his father, on condition that he should lead
a seafaring life and care for his mother. He
fulfilled the conditions. He was living in
Brookhaven, Long Island, when, July 31, 1684,
he exchanged his property in Stratford for the
property of Andrew Gibb at Brookhaven.
Later he returned to Stratford, however, and
died there in 1712, aged seventy-seven years.
His inventory was dated May 29, 17 12, and
amounted to seven hundred and eighty-two
pounds six pence. He married Abigail Day-
ton. Children: i. Joseph, born June 16, 1666.
2. John, born November 4, 1668. 3. Hannah,
born April 30, 1671 : married Thomas Har-
vey. 4. Elizabeth, married Edmund Pulford.
5. Thomas, married Sarah Deming. 6. Eph-
raim, married Mehitable Osborne. 7. Jona-
than. 8. Josiah, mentioned below.
(III) Josiah, son of Joseph Beardsley, was
born in Stratford or Brookhaven about 1685-
90. He married, November 4, 1712, at Strat-
ford, Mary Whittemore, probaljly daugliter of
Samuel. Children: i. Kate, born Alarch 23,
1714. 2. Hannah, born February i, 1715. 3.
Josiah, born December 31, 1716. 4. Samuel,
born June 30, 1719; mentioned below. 5.
Israel, born March 13, 1721. 6. Benjamin,
born July 12, 1723, died 1726. 7. Isaac Jud-
son, born October, 1725. 8. Benjamin, born
February 28, 1727-28. 9. Jonathan, ba])tized
August, 1734; settled at Newtown.
(IV) Samuel, son of Josiah Beardsley, was
born in Stratford, June 30, 1719. He married
(first) Ann, daughter of Samuel and Mary
French; (second) Thankful Doolittle. Sam-
uel Beardsley was in Lieutenant Colonel Jona-
than Duncan's regiment at Peekskill in 1777, a
captain in rank; also captain in Colonel Sam-
uel Whiting's regiment in 1777. Children : i.
Catherine, born July, 1742. 2. Josiah, born
February 6, 1750. 3. Daniel, born July, 17,^2;
married .\nn Hawley. 4. .\nna, married Eli
Smith. 5. Sarah, baptized August 13, 1758.
6. Joseph, baptized, August 13, 1758. 7. Sam-
uel, born May 14, 1760. 8. Eliot, bantized
August 29, 1762; mentioned below, q. Sarah,
baptized August 29, 1762. 10. Hall, born
CONNECTICUT
7-7
i-f>7. n. L.itlicrine, born March 2, 1770;
married Stephen IJeardslcy, uf Truniljiill. Con-
necticut.
(\') Eliot, son of Samuel Itearclsley, was
horn in Stratford in 1762, and was baptized
there with his twin sister, Sarah, Au].^ust jq,
\~(>2. He settled at Southbury, Connecticut,
,md many of his descendants have lived at
W insled and vicinity. In 1790 he was livin;;
.it lluntinf.;ton, L'onnecticut, and had one fe-
male in iiis family. He married, April 20,
178X, Hannah Heach, who died June 10, 1799.
He married (second), October i(\ 1800, .Abi-
gail Patterson, widow. Children: i. .-\bi).;ail,
born ,nt 1 luntinjjton, .April 25. 1792. 2. Han-
nah, born .May 17, 179S. 3. ICliot, born De-
cember 26, 1 80 1. Perhaps others.
(VI) Eliot (2), son of Eliot (l) Beardsley,
born December 26. 1801, at Huiitin{;ton. He
marrii'd Delia Rockwell. They lived at Win-
chester. Connecticut.
(\ 111 Edward Rockwell, son of Eliot (2)
I'.cardslcy, was born at W'insted, Comiecticut,
January 10, 1839. He was educated in the
public schools and Vale Colle-je, where he
irraduatcd in 1859. He was treasurer of the
I'.eardsley Scythe Company from 1S59 to 1S74.
I'roni 1S74 to 1S77 he conducted a private
banking business in W'insted, and in 1877 be-
came secretary and treasurer of the Central
\ew England ami Western railroad, which po-
sition he occupied for twenty-nine years until
his death, .May 19, hjo^l He removed from
Winsted to Hartford in 1881, and passed the
remainder of his life in that city. In religion
he was a Congregatiopalist, in politics a
staunch Rejiublican. He was a member of
the .\syluni Avenue Congregational Church of
Hartford: secretary and treasurer nf the
Pcnrdsk-y Library of Winsted: and a director
of The Empire Knife Company of Winsted.
He married, January 10, 1867, Emma .•\<le-
laide. born January 30. 1840 ( see Lyman and
Wetmore families). I'aiigliter of Thomas Wat-
son. She is living at Hartford. Connecticut.
Children: 1. Elliot Gay, lK)rn June 4. iSTiS. 2.
Edward Wat.son, born June 4. i8f>8, ntentioned
below. 3. Eaith. died in infancy. 4. Grace
Rockwell, born at Winsted, April 5, 1876.
(XIIIi Fdwanl Watson, son of I-'dward
Rockwell Peardsley, was born in Winsted,
June 4, 1868, and attended the public schools
there. He went with the family to Hartford
in 1 88 1 and there attended the public schools,
taking a two years' cour.se in the Hartford
iniblic high scliool. In December. 1885. he
entered the employ of the D. H. nuell Jewelry
Company, resigning that position. Jidy. iSS/t,
to become a clerk in the office of the Phoenix
Fire Insurance Company, where he continue' !
until .March, ■cd
local agent 01 'so
representing \ .. com-
panies. He !• isurance
business in hi- 1 I, 1^99,
and then entered a |>.kru)cr.>!iip vvith General
1-. .\. Dickinson and C. I. Heardsley. under
the firm nan ■ • ■ 1. , • ^
l'.eard>l(y in i nce
tieiicral Dicki: , /H,
the firm name has been . iieards-
ley. They arc the l^x-n! ' •• Aetna
Fire Insurance C' the
Phoenix I'ire Insur rd,
the Home Insurani rk,
and the .Alliance li da-
delphia. .Mr. lieard I in
business and is well knuwn liiruUKliutit the
coimtry as an able, progressive and enterpris-
ing imdcrwriter. He w " it of the
Comiecticut .As.sociation c Insur-
ance Agents in 1902 an' - at pres-
ent ( 1909) the president nal Asso-
ciation of Local Fire In- !its. He
was vicc-f)resident of the ll.uiii.;.! I'.oard of
Fire L'nderw riters in 1899. and re-elected for
a second term in 1900. He is an active and
prominent Republican. He was fire commis-
sioner of the city of Hartford 1902-05, and
has been for several years clerk of the west
middle school district of Hartford. He is a
member of the Republican Club of Hartford.
He is a member of the .Asylum .Avenue Con-
gregational Church of Hartford. He belongs
also to the Hartford Golf Club; the Connecti-
cut Society, .'^ons of the American Revolution ;
the Pi. H. Webb Council, Royal .Arcanum, and
St. John's Liidge of Free M,Ti<-in« He niar-
ried. October 15. 1889. I. n-.on, l)orn
September 28. i8fi9. Tb -hild. Ar-
line Johnson, bom July . ., ,,,
(The Lyman Line).
H) .Alfred the Great, King of England,
married Ethelbirth, dauglUer of Earl Ethel-
ran; their .son —
(ID Edward the Elder was King of Eng-
land.
I HI) Edgina. daughter of Edward, married
Henry <le X'erandois.
f IV ) Hubert fourth was Count de Vcrman-
dois.
i\') .Adela. daughter of Hubert, married
Hugh Magnus, fifth Count de Vcnnandojs,
and son of Henry I.. King of France.
(\'n Isabel, daughter of Hugh, married
Robert, Earl of Millent and Leicester.
{\'\\^ Robert was second Earl of Leicester.
(\Tin Robert, his s.-)n. was third Earl of
I cii-istcr
728
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(IX) Margaret, daughter of Robert, mar-
ried Saier de Quincy.
(X) Roger was the Earl of Winchester.
(XI) EHzabeth, daughter of Roger, married
Alexander Comyn.
(XII) Agnes, daughter of Alexander, mar-
ried Gilbert de Umfreville, called the famous
baron, the flower and keeper of the northern
parts of England.
(XIII) Gilbert de Umfreville was an in-
fant at the time of his father's death and was
made a ward of Simon de Mountford, Earl of
Leicester. He was the Earl of Angus, having
married Matilda, Countess of Angus, a lineal
descendant of R^alcolm III., King of Scotland,
three of whose sons succeeded to the throne.
Gilbert died in 1307.
(XIV) Robert de Umfreville, second son of
Gilbert, had livery of his lands. He was one
of the governors of Scotland and was a mem-
ber of parliament under Edward II., until the
eighteenth year of his reign, when he died.
He was the second Earl of Angus.
(XV) Sir Thomas de Umfreville, son of
Robert, was heir to his half-brother. Gilbert,
and lived at Harbottle. He married Joan,
daughter of Lord Rodam.
(XVI) Sir Thomas de Umfreville was sec-
ond son of Sir Thomas (i) and heir to his
brother, Sir Robert, and was living in the time
of Henry IV., at Kyme. Children: i. Gilbert,
a famous soldier in the French wars in the
time of Henry IV. and V., and was slain with
Thokas, Duke of Clarence and others. 2. Jo-
anna, mentioned below.
(XVII) Joanna, daughter of Sir Thomas de
Umfreville, married Sir William Lambert, son
of Alan 'Lambert.
(XVIII) Robert Lambert, of Owlton, was
his son.
(XIX) Henry Lambert, Esquire, of Ongar,
county Essex, was living in the twenty-fifth
year of the reign of Henry VI.
(XX) Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Lam-
bert, married Thomas Lyman of Navistoke.
(XXI) Henry Lyman, of Navistoke. was his
son.
(XXII) John, son of Henry Lyman, lived
in High Ongar.
(XXIII) Henry, son of John Lyman, lived
in High Ongar. He married Elizabeth ,
and had nine children.
(XXIV) Richard, third child of Henry Ly-
man, was born at High Ongar, county Essex,
England, and baptized October 30, 1580. In
1629 he sold to John Gower lands and orchards
and a garden in Norton Mandeville, in the par-
ish of Ongar, and in August, 163 1, embarked
with his wife and five children in the ship
"Lion." William Pierce, master, for New Eng-
land. In the ship, which sailed from Bristol,
were Martha Winthrop, third wife of Govern-
or Winthrop, the governor's eldest son and
his family, and also Eliot, the Indian apostle.
They landed at Boston, and Richard Lyman
settled first in Charlestown, and with his wife
united with the church of which Eliot was
pastor. He was admitted a freeman, June 11,
1635, and in October of the same year, join-
ing a party of about a hundred persons, went
to Connecticut, and became one of the first
settlers of Hartford. The journey was beset
by many dangers, and he lost many of his
cattle on the way. He was one of the original
proprietors of Hartford in 1636. receiving
thirty parts of the purchase from the Indians.
His house was on the south side of what is
now Buckingham street, the fifth lot from
Main street, west of the South Church, and
bounded apparently by Wadsworth street
either on the east or west. His will was dated
April 22, 1640, and proved January 27, 1642,
together with that of his wife, who died soon
after he died. He died in 1640. His name is
inscribed on a stone column in the rear of the
Centre Church of Hartford, erected in mem-
ory of the first settlers of the city. He mar-
ried Sarah, daughter of Roger Osborne, of
Halstead, in Kent, England. Children: i.
William, buried at High Ongar, August 28,
1615. 2. Phillis, baptized, September 12, 161 1 ;
came to New England and married William
Hills, of Hartford ; became deaf. 3. Richard,
baptized July 18, 1613; died young. 4. Wil-
liam, baptized, September 8, 1616: died No-
vember, 1616. 5. Richard, baptized February
24, 1617; mentioned below. 6. Sarah, bap-
tized February 6, 1620. 7. Anne, baptized,
April 12, 1621 ; died young. 8. John, baptized,
1623; came to New England; m"arried Dorcas
Plumb ; died, August 20, 1690. 9. Robert, born
September, 1629: married Hepzibah Bascom.
(XXV) Richard (2), son of Richard (i)
Lyman, was baptized at High Ongar, Febru-
ary 24, 1617. He and his two brothers, John
and Robert, were taxed in 1653 in Hartford
for a rate assessed to build a mill. They prob-
ably removed the same year to Northampton,
where in December, 1655. Richard was chosen
one of the selectmen. He sold his father's
homestead in Hartford in 1660. He married
there Hepsibah. daughter of Thomas Ford, of
Windsor. She married (second) John Marsh,
of Hadley. Richard Lyman died June 3. 1662.
Children : i. Hepsibah, married November 6,
1662, Joseph Dewey. 2. Sarah, married, 1666,
John Marsh. 3. Richard, married Elizabeth
Coles. 4. Thomas, mentioned below. 5. Eliza,
married, August 20, 1672, Joshua Pomeroy.
6. John, settled in Hadley. 7. Joanna, born
iNNECTK
i(j5.s. 8. Hannali, twrii nxio; iii;irrif<i. June
20, i')77. Job Pomeroy.
(XX\'Il Ensign Tliomas, son of Kichanl
j) Lyman, was born in Windsor, Connccti-
. lit, in 1647, and died July 15, 1725, aged
seventy-five years. He removed to Northamp-
ton in 1636. and in 17(18-09 to Durham. Con-
necticut. His wile Ruth and part of tlie cliil-
dren came to Durliam with him. Me was one
of the early settlers tliere, one of the first
deacons of the church and represented the
town several sessions in the ijcneral assembly.
Both he ami his wife renewed their covenant
with the church at the settlement of Rev.
N'athanicl Chauncey, December _^o, 17 10.
They were dismissed by letter from N'orthamp-
11 church under date of Jannnry :>'\ 1710-1 1.
i U' was ensij;n of the militai He
irried. in 1^78. Ruth. wid. iv '..iker
:i<l daughter of William H'ui.i; -n,- had
\ children by her tirst husband. t"hildren of
1 homas and Ruth Lyman: i. Thoma.";. liorn
1078. 2. Mindwell, born 1680: married John
Harris. 3. Ebenezer. born iCiS2: mentioned
below. 4. Elizabeth, Iwrn about 1^)84. 3.
Noah, born \(>^>: died 1728. 6. Enoch, born
January 18. i'k;)!.
( XXV'H ) Deacon Ebenezer, son of Ensign
I iiomas Lyman, was born in Northampton in
I '"82. and died in 1762. at the age of eighty.
He removed to Durham, Connecticut, after his
father and settled near the north Ixmndary on
the west road, or Cooked I^mc. about 1719. He
bought land in 1737 over the line in Middle-
field with his brother Noah, and in 1740 re-
Mioved to Tiirrington. He and his son Eben-
■■er were original members of the church. Oc-
tier 21, 1 74 1, and he was elected deacon Jan-
uary I. 1742. He was representative from
Durham in the general assembly in 1737. He
married. January 2, 1706, Experience Pom-
eroy. Children: i. Moses. 2. Experience,
lx)rn .\pril 17, 1708. at Northampton. 3. Eben-
ezer. born Se|itember 20. 1700; mentioned be-
low. 4. Stephen, born August 14, 171 1. 3.
Fxpcrience. born December 23. 1712. 6. Mind-
ell, horn July 13. 1714. baptized at Durham;
Married. October 29. 1741. Jacob Strong. 7.
John, born 1717: died 1763. 8. Hannah, bap-
tized June 30. 1723; died February 19. 1771 ;
married .\sahel Strong.
(XWlin Ebenezer (2). son of Ebenezer
I I) Lyman, was borni n Nrthhampton. Sep-
tember 20, 1709. He removed to Durham with
his parents about 1709. He was the first settler
in Torrington. Connecticut (1737), whither he
went with his "young family of three pers<->ns,"
He owned a large tract on what was later
called I.vman P.rook. and his house was used
fur t,'arriv,in purpn^e^ during Indian troubles.
He .,-
N.' ,h
— . •!
1810; m.i r.
bom Ntai .1
in N'ermont. .i. ^,.l:,l!l, \»r.i, 1;
aged ninctv-two years: married .•3,
,.,,. , . ,> ;.. ,_
4- I 'h.
ma' .-I
Nathaniel Haydcn. 7. .Mary, marne<i
Tuttle and lived at Windsor.
(Hie VVetmore Line).
The W- ■■ ■■■•"•i- -• -^ - •" -he
.same as \' . d
in the 1 ■
family.
(I) Thomas VVetmore.
cestor, \\a ' ■ -, ■ - ,
counties i-
dition. 1 : g
from Hristol, and settled m \\v 1-
necticut. where in i^<;?o-;o I- d
owner. He r>
ward, and in i '•>
of Massabeseclx. «.i.. u is
the town of Middletown. 1 -
her 23, 1633. Hcwasadni <>
20, 1632. and must have tlim ' <r
of the orthndox church .iiiil ■■•t
two huni ■ • • ■ ,,.
town in t i le
died Dec. _
will was dated July 20. nw^i Ht
(first) Sarah. (!nTich*<-r m' t^-hv
(Willicke) H.tI'
December 7.
ond ). Januarx
daiiglitiT <it 1\
Atkinson. Sl:>
married (third) K.r isoUirds,
widow, whrt (lied ' 1" 'he
pr-' ''It:
cb:' -:
Jolii,. ,v
23 : Ben
siah, 13
31 : Hannali.
.•\bicnil 1: H
fir-' • '
S«' ■
l(^i^ ■ ■■'
1640: married John Stowe. 4. Sandi. liaplized
.\pril 20. :^-i ■ d-H t'>«3 Rom at Middle-
town: ; October 19. 1632;
married ' ^' Hannah, bom
Fehruar ' '• -" <>,,-om-
ber to. 'h.
bom Ma- '^o-
730
CONNECTICUT
veniber 2, 1659 ; married ]\Iargaret Stowe. 10.
Xathaniel, born April 21, 1661 ; married Dor-
cas Allen, widow. 11. Joseph, born March 5,
1662: married Lydia Bacon. 12. Sarah, born
November 27, 1664. Children of the second
wife: 13. Josiah, born March 29, 1667. 14.
Mehitable, born June i, 1669. Children of
the third wife: 15. Benjamin, born November
2"], 1674. 16. Abigail, born November 6, 1678.
17. Hannah, born January 4, 1680.
(II) Samuel, son of Thomas Wetmore, was
born September 10, 1656, and died April 12,
1746. He removed to the Middlefield Society
in 1700, and was one of the first settlers there.
He married, December 13, 1687, Mary, born
April 7, 1664, died May 24, 1709, daughter of
Nathaniel and Ann Bacon. Her father was a
native of England, and his family lived in
Stratton, county Rutland, England. Children :
I. Mehitable, born November 14, 1689. 2.
Samuel, born ]March 13, 1692; mentioned be-
low. 3. Mary, born June 29, 1694. 4. Benja-
min, born Alay 17, 1696. 5. Thomas, Ijorn Au-
gust 26, 1698. 6. Daniel, born ]\Iay 9, 1703.
7. Beriah, born January 22, 1706-07. 8.
Jabez, born May 14, 1709.
(III) Samuel, son of Samuel Wetmore, was
born in Middletown, Connecticut, March 13,
1692, and died December 30, 1773. He was a
member of Middlefield Society and removed
with his family to Winchester, Connecticut, on
election day, 1771, where he purchased land.
He was the first person interred in the old
Winchester burying ground. His farm in
Winchester remained in the famil}' for many
generations. He married, June 21, 1722, Han-
nah Hubbard, born July 21, 1700, died June
4, 1794. Children, born in Middletown: i.
Deacon Samuel, born December 24, 1723 ; died
September 22, 1804. 2. Hannah, born Decem-
ber 18, 1725. 3. John, born October 27, 1727.
4. Rev. Noah, born April 16, 1730; died March
9, 1796. 5. Mehitable, born August 5, 1732;
died 1816. 6. Sarah, born March 31, 1734;
died 1803. 7. Lois, born March 6, 1736. 8.
Toel, born March 9, 1738: mentioned below.
9. Milicent, born September 15. 1739. 10.
Maru, born July 23, 1741.
(IV) Joei, son of Samuel Wetmore, was
born in Middletown, March 7 or 9, 1738, and
died in Torrington, in February, 1814, aged
seventy-five. He resided in Torrington, Con-
necticut, and married, and his wife owned the
covenant in the church there, March 10, 1765.
He married, November 23. 1763, Sarah,
daughter of Deacon Ebenezer Lyman, of Tor-
rington (see Lyman family). She died in
1832, aged ninety-two years. Children: i.
Olive, born March 10, 1765 ; died November,
1848. 2. Ebenezer Lyman, born 1766. 3.
John I'omeroy, born June 15, 1770; died Au-
gust 22, 1853. 4. ]\Ielicent, born January 10,
1772; mentioned below. 5. Sarah, married
Giles Whiting.
(V) Melicent, daughter of Joel Wetmore,
was born in Torrington, January 10, 1772, and
died September 19, 1848. She married, Jan-
uary I, 1797, Captain Thomas, born in New
Hartford, October 15, 1763, died January 23,
1850, son of Levi and Abigail (Ensign) Wat-
son. Children: i. Roman, born September 27,
1797; died unmarried, February 12, 1848. 2.
Thomas, born February 5, 1800; married, No-
vember 10, 1829, Emeline, born August 3,
1807, daughter of Elizur and Amanda (Steele)
Curtis ; children, born in New Hartford : i.
Caroline Amanda, born October 7, 1831 ; ii.
Charlotte Ellen, born January 8, 1835 ; iii.
Emma Adelaide, born January 30, 1840, mar-
ried Edward R. Beardslev (see Beardslev fam-
ily).
(Ill) Thomas, third son
BEARDSLEY of Joseph Beardsley (q.
v.), married Sarah Dem-
ing, July 18, 1707, and removed to Ripton,
now Huntington, in 1729, where he died in
1773. His chil'h-en were: Israel, December
3, 1708, mentioned below ; Sarah, March 24,
1709-10: Hannah, May 26, 1715 : Elizabeth,
October 26, 1716; Esther, married Benjamin
DeForest; Thomas and Henry (twins). Alay
19, 1720, both died young; Thankful, July 8,
1729.
(IV) Israel, son of Thomas Beardsley, was
born December 3, 1708. He married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Samuel Blagge, May 30,
1730. They removed to Newtown, Connecti-
cut, before 1761, where he died in 1791. Chil-
dren : Samuel Blagge, bom January, 1731-32;
Israel, September 30, 1733; Elisha, August 17,
1735, mentioned below; Urania, baptized April
9, 1738; Lemuel, June, 1740: Abel, April,
1743 ; Jared, 1744 ; Katharine, February, r753 ;
Price, May 19, 1761, in Newtown.
(V) Elisha, son of Israel Beardsley, was
born August 17, 1735. died in Monroe, April
6. 1824. He married ?\'ehetahel. daughter of
Ebenezer and Abigail Hurd. He was a farmer
by occupation ; a large landholder ; a communi-
cant in the Episcopal church, vestryman and
clerk, 1768-1812, and warden from 1812 until
his death. Children : Abbe Betsey, baptized
August 5, 1770: Ebenezer, baptized April 26,
1772: Elisha Hubbard, baptized December 5,
1773; Ezra Abel, baptized January 14, 1776;
Elihu, baptized September 7, 1777, mentioned
below; Agur, baptized August, 1779; Roswell,
born in 1782.
(\'I) Elihu, son of Elisha Beardsley, was
"^
L«'t ^^UY ,
^cc^ ^ I f'fj^
CONNECTICUT
it W'l-ston.
While a
the district
I le went u> the Epis-
Ijiirii ill .\i:i\, 1777; liaiiti/cl ><|itcnilK.T 7.
1777, (iiid l'ul)riiary Hj, 1844. He iiiarrii<l
(first) rriscilia, <lau),'htcr of Deacon Deo«latiis
SiMiiiian, of Munrue; she was l)orn in 1778,
died Septeinhcr 9, 1803, aged twcntv-fivc. He
married (second) .September I, 1805, Ruth,
daiitrhter of \\ iliiam Kd wards, wlio was lK)rn
Septenil>er 10, 1781, died March 30, iST^.
Children of second wife: ['riscilla ; IC1h:ii K<I-
wards ; Agur; Ambrose; Sylvia, married Lu-
cius 1!. lUirroiighs; Rufus, died September 21,
1863.
(VII) Rev. Ebcn Edwards Bcardsley, D.D.,
LL.D.. son of Elihu Ueardsley. was 1»orn at
what is now the town of Monroe, I-'airfield
county. Connecticut, formerly the towti of
New Stratford. January 8, 1808. His boy-
hood was spent largely on his father's farm and
in the district schools. .\t the at;c of sixteen
he was sent to the StapK
where he began his da^
Student he taught a feu
schools of the vicinity.
copal Academy at Norwalk to prepare for col-
lege under Rev. Reuben Sherwoinl, then rec-
tor of ."^t. Paul's Cluirch at Xorwalk, when
Rev. Allen I.. Morgan was head master of the
academy. 1 le eiucreil Trinity College in |8.'S,
and took the academic course of four years.
He was csi)ecially fond of literature, and he
took a place of honor at graduation. AlK)ut
the same time lie received pay for a maga-
zine story that had laen accepted, and this
money, he often said, seemed the best to him
of any that he ever earned or received. He
taught school for one year in Hartford, and
for two years was a tutor in Trinity CollcBe.
pursuing at the same time the studv of tlieol-
Ogy by liitr.- ' ' ' < - < < < 1 >
from till- ci'!'
deacon by !'■ . . , ,, .
and immediately placed in charge of St. Peter's
Church at Cheshire. Connecticut. In 1838 he
was called to the position of principal of the
Academy at Cheshire, and he continued also
as rector of the church there. Cnder bis man-
agement the school iirosjierccl. He was anx-
ious to have a new church built, and offered to
gpvc his services without salary, if the under-
taking were accomplished within a given time.
The church was built. Soon afterward he re-
M:,'ned as rector to give his iimlivided attention
;.i the schc^M : but in 1844 the parish again had
need of him. and he relinquished the academy
for the church, and became rector once more.
He continued his gotxl work in this field of
labor from 1S35 to 1848. He then came to
New Haven, as the first rector of the Third
Parish. St. Tlioma-'s Church. This church was
organized by men of modest means, and had a
.\ !
ch;i:
ditti
to
chir
p.-M
faiii
preailicr.
Dr. IUMrils|p\ was a Inivtrc of Tri
K-K' •
lor
the
the
of
at
Wll.,,,:,^ ,.
Sch.M.l at ("In
always alive I"'
from its aiinivei>.ii '
largest sense of r!--.'
tion of any of •'
degree of D.l >
and it was well ..
unexpected. He w:
the fw.-Titv-fiftli nr-
of r
.st.-s
by year ^'ew in iiillucnce and i'
kinds of office* rnn}f \n hirn
cause of •"
strong r:i
sixth de.
to the pr'
works, i :
history, and i-
historv of hi-
hi>r '
'I",'
cell
his own chufi
"History of ti-
cut," his first
was printe<l if
l>ook was a bi'
research, anii
seeking the ">r:.
-f
h
.il
in
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ti-
ne
'lis
in
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732
CONNECTICUT
with living witnesses to the facts of which he
was writing. In later years he took a unique
place as adviser and counsellor in the church.
He was a constant and productive worker, tak-
ing few and brief vacations. He went abroad
in 1870, and was welcomed heartily in Eng-
land and Scotland ; his history had made him
known across the sea, and he formed many
new friendships there. In 1868 he was a mem-
ber of the general convention of the Protestant
Episcopal church, composed of the house of
bishops and the house of clerical and lay depu-
ties, four from each diocese. He sat in eight
conventions, and presided over the lower
house in 1880 and 1883. He always served
on the most important committees, and exerted
a potent influence in the deliberations of the
conventions, though he was not given to fre-
quent speaking. He undertook the writing
of a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson, com-
monly known as the Father of the Episcopal
Church in Connecticut, and also the first presi-
dent of Columbia College. He spent three
arduous years in the preparation of this work,
which was published in 1873. Dr. Johnson, it
may be said, was the first in Connecticut to
teach the Copernican theory of astronomy,
when Yale College and the Pope at Rome still
agreed that the sun went around the earth.
Dr. Beardsley's Life of Bishop Seabury was
finished in 1880, and in the same year he at-
tended the provincial synod of the Church of
England, at Montreal, as representative of the
American Episcopal church.
He loved his work, his church, and the ser-
vices of the church, and often attended divine
services in other churches. He was rarely dis-
abled by sickness, and enjoyed uniformly good
health all his life. The first Sunday of August.
1890, was the first time in forty years, unless
out of the country, when he failed to be pres-
ent on the first Sunday of the month to admin-
ister communion. A collection of his historical
papers and addresses at various anniversaries
was made at the request of his friends, and
published under the title of "Addresses and
Discourses." In 1884 he was one of a deputa-
tion from Connecticut to Scotland and the
Scotch Episcopal church to commemorate the
consecration of Bishop Seabury, of Connecti-
cut, at Aberdeen, and to renew and strengthen
the bond between the two Episcopal chm-ches.
He had many friends in Scotland then to wel-
come him. He was interested in the new
diocesan school called St. Margaret's for girls,
established in Waterbury in 1875, and in the
raising of the diocesan fund for the support
of the bishop to one hundred thousand dollars,
bringing much relief to the churches and par-
ishes and improving the financial condition of
the diocese. Friendship with Philip Marett, to
whom New Haven owes in great measure its
public library, led to placing Dr. Beardsley in
a position of great trust and responsibility in
the disposition of his estate at the death of his
daughter, Mrs. Gififord. Many worthy insti-
tutions were benefitted. Dr. Beardsley was
the one man above all others in whom I3ishop
Williams trusted, and on whom he leaned in
later years.
"Dr. Beardsley was a remarkably wise man ;
shrewd in good sense, able to look at things in
a quiet, judicial way, to see the probable
course of things and the end from the begin-
ning. It was New England wisdom of a good
kind. He had his own way of judging men,
and he felt strongly on many questions ; but
he measured men quite accurately, and made
not many mistakes. He knew well the Con-
necticut parishes, and was in full sympathy
with them in their desire to keep in the old
paths. He knew how the people in the parishes
felt, what traditions were behind them, what
feelings and motives and desires appealed to
them and were likely to influence them. Of
course Dr. Beardsley was a conservative, a
man not given to change, distrusting a good
many new methods and ideas in the religious
world. He trusted to the ministry of the Word
and Sacraments, to the preaching of the Gos-
pel, to ordinary parochial ministration, to
build up the church."
He died December 21, 1891.
"He made no selfish stru.ggle for place or
power. He did his work, and let it pass for
what it might. He did the work close at hand,
and took up one task after another as they
came to him. * * * Of highest ideals as re-
gards integrity and honesty and justice, a man
of great gentleness and kindness, his life light-
ened up with a sense of humor, a plain, ap-
proachable, straightforward man of the best
New England type, reverent. God-fearing, as-
sociated in a helpful way with many institu-
tions and interests, very useful in his day and
generation, a man of unusual wisdom and
judgment, a lover of truth in speech and in
writing, and a lover of righteousness — having
large if quiet part in many movements which
make for religion and for common good.
* * * He kept his interest in life, and he
worked on to the end : no break in his useful-
ness or his work, having the reward of tem-
perate, orderlv, godly living and high think-
ing." The foregoing is cited from the address
of Rt. Rev. Bishop Edwin S. Lines, D.D., on
the occasion of the presentation to the New
Haven Colony Historical Society of a portrait
of Dr. Beardsley, November 19, 1902. Dr.
Lines was then president of this society. Dr.
CONNECTICUT
73i
Beanlsky was its vice-prcsitlcut |8( ._•-<. .,n.!
its president 1873-84, and to him
owes imicli uf its im|M>rtancc and ;
Dr. i'.cnrdsliy jnihlished : "Hisi,.- , ..; \,[.
dress at Cheshire" (1844); "History of the
Episcopal Church iti Comiccticut, ' of which a
second edition was published in iHikj in two
volumes; "History of St. Peter's Church at
' heshirc" ( 1837 ) ; '"Life and Career of Sam-
• 1 jnhnM.n, n.D." (1874): "Life and Times
I William Samuel Joluisun' (18701; and
ihcr wnrks. He contriiuited a iiumhcr of
iper> tiiat arc published in the pruceedings
! the .\ew Haven Colony Historical Society.
He married, in Cheshire, Jane Margaret
.Matthews, born at St. Simon's Island, Gcorijia,
March 20, 1824. died .Xujjust 30, 1851. daugh-
'<T of Rev. Edmund Matthews, of St. Simon's.
ii)rf,'ia; her father was born at Charleston,
-"Uth Carolina. Mrs. licardsley was the only
dauf^'hter. .^he had a brother. Dr. Henry \V. E.
Mattluws. Mrs. Matthews and daughter came
•rtli to live among friends in the village of
lieshire. The only child of Dr. and Mrs.
I ardsley was Elisabeth Margaret, born at
'leshire, March 16, 1844. now living at 30
Iin street. New Haven, and well known in
iiurch and society.
(Y) Josiali I _■ I. SI 111 lit
I'.H.ARDSLEV .Samuel lieanlsky (q. v.),
was born at Stratford,
February 6, 1750. He was a tailor by trade.
In 1805 he removed from Stratford to Butter-
nuts. < >tscgo county. N'ew ^■ork. He married
.■\bigail liulkley. Children: 1 laniel, born July
15. 1770. mentioned below; Eli, .\ugust 26.
17S1; Sally, July 17. 1783; Robert. .April 21,
178(1; P.ulkley, February 27. 1791 ; Abbie, Jan-
uary 1. I7(>S; Fainiy, l"ebrnary 10, 1803.
(\T) Daniel, son of Josiah (2) Beardsley,
was bom at Stratford. July 15, 1779. He was
a farmer all his active life. In politics he was
a Whig. He lived at Butternuts, New York,
but with his wife made frequent visits to his
old home in Stratford, and upon his return
used to take a load of clams, then a great lux-
ury at places distant from the shore. Their
last visit was in 1843. He was a thrifty farmer
and used to buy pork of all the farmers in
the section where he lived, jiacked the |)ork,
smoking the hams and shoulders. He found
a good market for this meat anion? the men
then building the Delaware & Hudson canal.
He became well-to-do. "I have heard him
speak uf it as a remarkable fact," says a de-
sceiulant, "that one year he made clear over
a thousand dollars, which was a large sum.
when in those days the best dairy butter sold
for fri>m three to ten cents a pound and brown
sugar at over twenty cents a poui"i " "■• "lar-
rictl. November 11. 1804, H.: ih
Hurd. rhiMrcit: Flvirn, h-.n -.i«j,
*!'«• J. iiicn-
ti' : ~.):\Vil-
liai.i ,11 -vv5_
tVIIi ,8
born Aul i le
was a fariiiet in
religion, and a i-J
at 1: r.l
«. ■■,.
1 8-' ,.„.
jail I-
dan, .4
and ui 1 ' it
.'\menia, i-
inin Woixi H ^o
county, New N a,
May 12, 1797. r.
His wife Lodema eiied n ;1-
dren : Pheb'-, iiK(rri<'d Fr:' 1-
tioncd all 1".
W'aite ; >
staff. Ch;, ■..-... ...1.1-
niin Franklin, l-'cbruary 28, 1841. nientinncd
below; William Henry, .Vpril i. 1843; .Mary
Achsali, January 15, 1845, ^'C<1 August 18,
1848; Melissa Lodenia. May 25. 1840. died
February, 189;, ■ ' ' '• ' ' ■-•;i.
flied March 1 n,
June 5. 1853: - 3.
1855. died Februar\ 28. .\.
March 10, 1859; Robert I!: -8,
1861.
(\Tin Dr. Benjannn Franklin Beardsley,
son of Erastus Bear''- ' ' • '" r-
nuts. February 28, i.^ '>-
lie schools and lli. ' .J
Delaware Col!' ^d
from the mcdii ^y
of Buffalo. New 1 ;.
He began the practii
New York. He reii: ' .v
York. Since 188/1 n
general practice at II r
about si.\ months of t.icl. is
been lecturing in various ; y
on subjects rel.r--- • •'■ 'c
an<I surgery, i ^8,
since then a I' ' •'
terms as coroner ui w
York. He has hrt-ii ■ iie
teir; • 'f
lien' in
|l>li> - --^o
thousanil lectures in all part- <>f the coun-
tr>' on the subject of tem|)crance. Dur-
ing the civil war he paid a .substitute three
hundred dollars to supjxjrt the govern-
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CONNECTICUT
ment, in order to continue his studies in
the medical school. He is a member of St.
John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Hartford, and of the South Park Methodist
Church. His family are members of the First
Baptist Church. He mirried, at Sublette,
Illinois, October i6, 1865, Anna Elizabeth
Guy. bom at Greene, Chenango county, New
York, August 16, 1843, daughter and only
child of Rev. Albert and Anna (Allis) Guy.
Children: i. Mary Allis, born July 2, 1872,
at Coventry, New York ; graduate of Columbia
College ; teacher in the Hawthorn School, New
York City. 2. Guy Erastus, December 14,
1874, mentioned below. 3. Howard Wood,
September 7, 1889, at Hartford: graduated
from Yale Universitv, 1910, receiving degree
of Ph.B.
(IX) Guy Erastus, son of Dr. Benjamin
Franklin Beardsley, was born at Coventry,
New York, December 14, 1874. He attended
the public schools at Binghamton and the Hart-
ford high school. He left the high school in
his junior year to enter Yale College and he
graduated there with the degree of Ph.B. in
the class of 1896. He began his career in
business as clerk in the employ of the Aetna
Fire Insurance Company. After six years with
this company, he went to Pittsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, and remained a year as special agent
for western Pennsylvania of the National
Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburg.
He returned to Hartford in January, 1903, as
special agent of the Home Insurance Company
of New York for Connecticut and Rhode Is-
land. In July, 1905, he became a special agent
for Connecticut, western Massachusetts and
Vermont for the Aetna Fire Insurance Com-
pany and he held thispo sition until May,
1907. when he was elected to his present office
as assistant secretary of the Aetna Fire Insur-
ance Company. He is a Republican in politics :
a member of the Asylum Hill Congregational
Church, of the University Club, the Hartford
Golf and Twentieth Century clubs of Hart-
ford. He is a trustee of the Society for Sav-
ings. He married, December 2, 1903, Jane
Reed, daughter of John Reed Hills (see
Hills II). "children, born at Hartford: John
Hills, October 27, 1904, Guy Erastus, Jr.,
October 12, 1906, Roxanne, ]May 18, 1910.
(The Reed Line).
The name of Reed is found not only in Eng-
land, where it has been conmion from the time
surnames came into use. and as a clan name
before that time, but in Ireland, Scotland
and various countries on the continent of Eu-
rope. The name at present is spelled generally
in three wavs : Reed, Reid and Reade. The
genealogy of the Read family of Kent, Eng-
land, dates back to 1139 to Brianus de Rede of
Morpeth, on the Wensback river in the north
of England.
(I) John Reed or Read was born in 1598,
supposed to be son of William and Lucy
(Henage) Reed. He was brother of William
Reed, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. He came
to America in 1630 and lived for a time in
Weymouth, where he was in 1637. He was of
Dorchester in 1638, and removed from there
to Braintree. In 1643 or 1644 he went to
Rehoboth with Rev. Mr. Newman and his
church, and his name is third on the list of
proprietors of that town. He was constable,
and a man of affairs. He kept an inn. He
married Sarah . He died September 7,
1685, aged eighty-seven. Children : Samuel,
William, Abigail, baptized in Dorchester, De-
.cember 30, 1638: John, born in Braintree, Au-
gust 29, 1640; Thomas, November 9, 1641 ;
Ezekiel (twin) , died young; Zachariah (twin),
died young; Moses, October, 1650; Mary, Jan-
uary, 1652 ; Elizabeth, January, 1654 ; Daniel,
March, 1655; Israel, 1657; Mehitable, August,
1660; Josiah, mentioned below.
(II) Josiah, probably the elder son of John
Reed, was among the early emigrants from
Massachusetts to Connecticut, and settled near
New London as early as 1652. He had two
sons, John, Josiah, mentioned below.
(III) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (i) Reed,
settled in Norwich, Connecticut. He married,
in November, 1666, Grace Holloway, of
Marshfield, Massachusetts, who died May 9,
1727. He died July 3, 1717, at Norwich.
Children: Josiah, born April, 1668: William,
April, 1670: Eliazbeth, September, 1672; Ex-
perience, February 27, 1675; John, August 15,
1679; Joseph. March 12, 1681, mentioned lu'-
low: Susanna, September 20, 1685: Hannah,
July, 1688.
(IV) Joseph, son of Josiah (2) Reed, was
born March 12, 1681. He married, August
25, 1708, Mary Guppie. Children : Joseph,
born May 23, 1709; Mercy, November 28,
171 1 ; Abigail, February 7, 1712: Esther, No-
vember 22, 1714; J\Iary, August 19, 1717;
Elizabeth. June 28, 1719; Samuel, mentioned
below.
(V) Samuel, son of Joseph Reed, was born
October 16, 1721, at Norwich, died at Lisbon,
Connecticfut, January 17, 1801. He married,
October 3, 17.45, Mary Andrews. Children:
Samuel, born October 28, 1746; Jonathan,
February 12, i7-!9: ]\Iary, June 10, 1751;
Elisha, January 5. 1753.
(\^I) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Reed,
was born at Lisbon, Connecticut, October 28,
1746. He married Lucy Kilham, of Preston,
I
CONNKCTICLT
735
Coniucticut, .Scptcmljcr ^4, 1769. Qiihlren :
Sarah, horn at Norwich, August 12, 1775.
flicd April 7, 1795: Lucy, Ijorn Juiu- >>. rrrS;
I lijah. mentioned 1)cIo\v.
(\ll) I'lijah. son of Sanuiil
was horn Anj,'iist 5. 1780. Mc niarrir.i >ir.iii
or Sally Peck, jamiary 3, 1805. They livc<l
at Canferhury. Coiniccticut. thihlren : John
". born December 24. 1805; Klisha, N'ovem-
'T 3. 1807; ji'iiiima, ( )ctoler .'o. iSo.;, mar-
ried William Flills (sec Hills 1); Thomas X..
AiiRust II, iSii ; Sally D., Jnly 8, 1814.
(The Hills Line).
( I ) \\ illiam Hills was born near Paisley,
otland, about I78f). Me came to this coun-
w ith some of his people when he was a
Muall boy and located at \\\st I'.irms. West-
chester courry, Xcw \'ork. iu>\\ the tlistrict of
Harlem, New N'ork City. lii?routrh of the
Bronx. Thence he came in later years to
Hartford. Connecticut. The name was ori^;-
inally Hill, the linal letter beinij added in this
country to the surii.nne. He died in Hartford
in 1857. He married Jemima, born ( >cto|)cr
20, i8(v;, died .Vovember 30, i8i>3. daughter
of Elijaii Reed, of Canterbury ( see Reed \ H ).
' hildren: Wifliam, married Julia ;
I liarles. married Josephine Pollard; Sarah
Jane, married IMward b'rancis : John Reed,
irentioiied below; Mary, marriecl Charles H.
Tryon and had two sons.
(H) John Reed, son of William Hills, was
born at Hartford. ( )ctober 9. 1841. He was
educated in the public schools of his native
city, and throughout his active life has fol-
lowed the trade of mason and the business of
builder and omtractini; mason in Hartford.
His oflice is on Nfain street, near Central row.
He has constructed many of the business build-
ini^s of the city, and for many years has been
one of the foremost in his line of business.
He has been honored with various places of
tnisf and honor. In politics he is a Re|>ublican
and he has taken an active and intluential
part in public affairs. He was state senator
for several terms and at one time senior sen-
ator and member of the Yale College corpora-
tii>n. rci>resintini,' the state. I le has rcpcatc lly
ilcclirecl to take the nomination for mayor of
the city and other offices to which he coidd
have been elected. He is a member of the
order of Free and .Accepted Masons. He is
a director of the Travelers' Insurance Com-
pany, the I'nited States National Rank, the
Kcllog!.; & r.ulkeley Printing Company and
trustee of the Pratt .Street Savings P.ank.
He married F.lla Maria, born .\pril j;. 1844.
died I'cbruary 14. 1897. (laujjhter of Charles
Otis and Caroline Maria (Myers) Willis.
Oii'-' •• ' '• '■ '■■
M
niav
sicy, 111 Ilaitioul tM.
Her mnthcr was Uirn Ju'
fol,' . . ■.
of I
Wsl
l\s. \v;iv
( ine- : ■
ch.
ner ...
Wvll\s,
Cutler '
wh
par'
ant
(
die.: . ,
iK-th
.Mav
W
14-
15, 1828, sun wi lKi;r\ an
.Myers of Rocky Hill. I
aluMit I78''i, was from Pen ■ ... 1 ^ 1
John Myers, of Wethersfielil, Connecticut, w
died in 1803.
Klizabeth (Wells) Mvcrs, l-orn lune
1788. at Wethersfield. died nro-^lxr k\ !«
was daughter of ( '
master mariner, lH)r'
married ( first I l'.et>.
had four children ;
phrey, a native of \.r
cut. who died at .Mmir.i. V. li>
New York, in 1835, having ha.'
The Mi-Neil family
Mc.NKIL port, now nt.r.-. n.
Archibald M
sons, has been re.-^dent
nearly two centuries. Tr
ancestor to the yoimtrest ■
embraces sevo" ■ ■ -
career the M.
guished by p.i"
honorably and inlliu-iiti.ili^
lie affairs and activel\ ar
dated with the substanti.ii it. r.
state of Connecticut.
This family is descended n .n-. '.-..
land Protest.int stock. .\
"Landed Cmtrv". the rr
(or McX
onsay, C-
challic. .1
ancestor.
in the fi.
tic Sween. in the
continues vigorous a
.f P.ridgc-
I l,v H...,
..!
736
CONNECTICUT
position. The late eminent General Sir John
Carstairs McNeill was of the house of iMcNeill
of Colonsay. The immemorial heraldic device
of the family is a silver lion rampant on an
azure field, which usually is blazoned quarterly
with the arms of notable allied families.
(I) Archibald McNeil, founder of the Con-
necticut line, was of Branford, where in 1735
he purchased lands. Subsequently he was a
prominent citizen of New Haven, was assessor
in 1740 and surveyor of highways in 1746,
and was conspicuous in real estate transac-
tions. A circumstance of particular interest is
his participation, as one of the "brothers" in
founding the first Masonic lodge in Connec-
ticut (now known as Hiram Lodge, No. i), at
a meeting "held at Jehiel Tuttle's in New
Haven on the festival of St. John the Evan-
gelist, 1750". This was only seventeen years
after the first institution of ]\'Iasonry in the
American colonies (which occurred at Boston,
July 3. .1733)-
Archibald McNeil was successfully engaged
in the trade with the West Indies, in part-
nership with Samuel Cook (who was named
as executor of his will), and was owner and
supercargo of the ship "Peggy and Molly".
He died in the island of Jamaica in the latter
part of 1752 (see "Connecticut Colonial Rec-
ords", vol. X, p. 577), and his will was pro-
bated in July, 1753, by his widow, who was
placed under bond of three thousand pounds
sterling, indicative of a very considerable
estate for those times. He married Mary,
daughter of Rev. Samuel and Abigail (Whit-
ing) Russell and widow of Benjamin Fenn.
She was born in 1708. Her father. Rev.
Samuel Russell, was one of the founders of
Yale College. Issue: Archibald, born Sep-
tember 20, 1736, see below; Charles, baptized
January 18, 1739; Charles, baptized Novem-
ber I, 1741 ; John, born August 2, 1745, bap-
tized August 4, 1745 ; removed to Armenia
precinct, Dutchess county, New York ; Sam-
uel, baptized October 9, 1748, of Litchfield,
Connecticut.
(II) Archibald (2), eldest child of Archi-
bald (i) and Mary (Russell) McNeil, was
born in Branford, Connecticut, September 20,
1736, and baptized October 10 following. He
lived in New Haven and Milford, and was a
large property owner; died before July 3,
1782. when the executor of his estate was ap-
pointed. On July 3, 1776, he enlisted in the
continental forces. He married, in New
Haven, Connecticut, May 2, 1758, Sarah
Clark. Issue : William, see below.
(III) William, son of Archibald (2) and
Sarah (Clark) McNeil, was born in New
Haven, May 13, 1759. He was a graduate of
Yale College, class of 1777, and in the old
Yale catalogue is described as a sea captain.
During the revolution (January 30, 1782, to
August 13, 1783; he served as gunner on the
American privateer "Marquis de Lafayette",
under Captain Elisha Hinman. In the brief
war of the United States with France he was
again on the same vessel, which was cap-
tured by the enemy, and with others he was
for some time confined in a French prison.
On account of this event he was one of those
who figured in the celebrated French spolia-
tion claims. He was engaged in business in
Derby, Connecticut. His death occurred in or
before 1808. He married, in New Haven,
Huldah Augur. Issue (the chronological se-
quence not being exactly known) : Abraham
Archibald, born July 21, 1802, see below;
William : Maria, married, September 12, 1824,
Russell Bradley, of New Haven ; John, had a
daughter, Elizabeth, who married John E.
Wylie, of New Haven: Henry; Nancy, mar-
ried R. Dickinson.
(I\") Abraham Archibald, son of W'illiam
and Huldah (Augur) McNeil, was born in
Derby, Connecticut, July 21, 1802. In early
life he was supercargo of vessels in the West
Indies trade, sailing out of New Haven. Re-
moving after 1825 to Bridgeport, he became
a prominent citizen of that community. For
some time he was associated in the shoe man-
ufacturing business with Samuel Hodges, his
wife's uncle. He was the founder of the
system of lighthouses in Bridgeport harbor,
and for many years before his death was the
keeper of the lighthouse at the entrance to the
harbor. Mr. AIcNeil died in Bridgeport, May
II, 1873. He married, in Bridgeport, No-
vember 25. 1827, ilary Ann, daughter of
Captain William Hulse, who in 1813 was lost
at sea with all the crew of the brig "WiUiam",
sailing out of Bridgeport. She was born No-
vember II, 181 1, died July, 1892. Issue: i.
Charles Hubbell, born December 14, 1828, de-
ceased ; was engaged in business pursuits,
being for many years associated with his
brother Archibald ; twice married, but had no
issue; his widow married (second) Captain
Alvin P. Hunt. 2. John, born October 9,
1830, deceased: many years harbor-master of
Bridgeport and a highly public-spirited citi-
zen, especially active in all movements for the
improvement of the harbor ; married. 1865,
Anna, daughter of James and Anna Maria
(Barnes) Scofield, of New York, and is sur-
vived by one daughter, who is the widow of
Rev. Louis N. Booth, of Bridgeport. 3. Sam-
uel William, born March 16, 1832, deceased.
4. Eliza Maria, born January 9, 1834, died
March 6, 1835. 5. Josiah Hoyt, born February
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717
'J' ^^7,}" 'I'l^''' Auj,'ii>t 24, i)^y. f'aii.l 7, (twins),
born Auf^ust 31. i.*<?7. Aiii;iistiis, «|ic»l Au-
gust 18. 1S3S. and Siilni-y A<l<.l|>luis, deceased.
wild was a citizen ui l!^id^;l.•|)')rt and keeper of
the lii,dithi)itse. and is survived liy his widi)W. 8.
Mnry Iloyt, \v^xn ()cti>lier Jo 1831;. died N'o-
ttnlitT 2^. 1840. <j. Mary Hoyt. Ix)rn I)c-
rinlier \2, 1840. dcceasc<l. 10. Archibald,
born July 2, 1843, see below. 11. Maria
Lonpwortli, born December 25, 1845. de-
ceased; married Lester J. Bradley; no sur-
\iviiij,' children. 12. Sarah. Ixtrn .-Kujfust 28.
1848. dieil 1853.
(\ ) Archibald (3). tenth child «if Abra-
ham .\rchibal<l and Mary Ann (Hulse) Mc-
Neil, was born in l{rid;;e|H)rt. July 2. 1843.
I le received his early cflucation in Scllick's
.Schoiil in l'.rid^'e|)nrt, snbsci|nenfly attendinjj
the celebratecl Thonias .'^cll'")| in New Haven
and the ni>i)kiiis (Irannnar .School of the same
l>lace, and jjraduatinjj from the latter insti-
tution in iSf'Hj. .After completing his studies
Iir entered the ship chandlery store of his
! other. Charles H.. then located op(>osite the
• ■Id depot and steamboat landiujij, I5ridu;e|>ort.
I'loin 18^13 t" 187(1 he was in partnership
with his brother, niicier the firm name of .Mc-
Neil Hrothers. in the wholesale fruit and
produce business. In the latter year the
brothers removed to New York and estab-
lisheij themselves in the wholesale butter and
> liee>e trade at 84 I'.roail street, the firm style
beinji .\rcbibald .McNeil & CV)m]iany, and
three years later they embarked in the expirt
and import business with Cuba, dealing in
bituminous coal and produce. The New York
house was ijiscontimic! in 1888. when Mr.
McNeil returneil l>> i;ridi;e|iort. where he has
since been exteiisi\ely eiiL;age<! in the coal
ide. The jirescnt style is the .\rchibald Mc-
.\il & Sons Company. Incorporated, in which
his three sons, .Archibald. Kenneth W. and
Rinlerick C. are associated. ( )ne of the rep-
••'•seiilativc men of aflfairs of I'lridfjeiHirt, Mr.
McNeil enjoys the hij^best business and (ler-
-"n.Tl reputation, is conspicuous for public
.sjiirit, has been active and prominent in jhv
litic.Tl life, ami with his family occupies a
leadinsj jiosition in the .social circles of the
city.
From his earliest years warmly interested
in political (piestiops and public jK>licy. Mr.
McNeil became attached to the princii>Ies of
the Oemocratic party, an 1 in that faith be
has always contimied. Thonph never a seeker
of imblic office, be has on several occasiojis
accejited nominations, and bis record as a
candidate before the people is one of excep-
tional popularity and success. In 1872-73 he
represented the old second ward in the Hridge-
|)ort coil
Bryan campaifn^. in
for tile legislature,
.some four hundred
In the »prini!: of i
niil: • - .1
ll<
»>rst
te
in
it.
''le
d.
elected, I'T
in a disti n-
servative, air in
in the state. \ cd
the
tlu
COl!
( )f his cuurM.' mitl ret:urti la ; ac
followinp was said: "It is wortl i.it
there h;i\ ' if
McNeil, l.y
some 01 ; . st
alone for some iiif;i 10
be riRht, or aj;ainst .ht
to be wrong- And ■ c-
ord has been a stea. -.il
to advocate or e>ui. 1. n.ip.. , .m, ■...y.-.-.xxxi
which, in his opinion, would not l>e entirely
for the fn-st interests of tin ^t.ite r is '■\\-\\-
tutions".
He was a charter mcnii
tic Club of llii ■ ,1
is a member ■ \l-
gonquin Club .,, . tie
latter for two years). I • be
was commo«lore of the oi lit
Club, ami he is now governoi e-
port Yacht Club and was its n
i8<)<;-if)00. He is a memlwr 01 mh < .< ncral
.Silliman branch. Sons of the .American Revo-
lution.
Senator McNeil married, in New ^
October 2, 1881. Jean McKetirtf. .In'
tieorgc J. Clan Ranald, ■
Their children are: 1. ;n
New Y.-' I ^'-^ .f
the Arch le
received .f
his native cit> aii<i tu
the Park Avenue h • <.
H, • • !i-
ti< 111
tl;e : -:... . :,T-
ity. He is a n
teefivr Orrlrr
Mr
uhul
lu
nd Pro-
^f-^. r.f
le.,
cb.
C.i!
. and
1 '..1 ...
in
1 1
of Wo-
w. of Rc<|
.Men, liie llii«ilvl.»ttn * luli. Sca.^ide CItib,
and the .\rion .Singing S<Kiety. 2. Kenneth
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Wylie, born in Bridgeport, September 14,
1885 ; secretary and treasurer of the Archibald
McNeil & Sons Company. Married, in New
York City. November, 1907, Queenie Beatrice,
daughter" of William H. Hall, of New York.
They have one child, Kenneth Hall McNeil,
born May, 1908. 3. Roderick Clan Ranald,
born in Bridgeport. March 20. 1888; general
manager of the Archibald McNeil & Sons
Company.
Dolor Davis, immigrant ancestor,
D.-W^IS was one of the prominent pion-
eers. He married in county Kent,
England, March 29, 1624, Margery, daughter
of Richard Willard, of Horsemonden, county
Kent, yeoman. She was baptized at Horse-
monden, November 7, 1602, and died before
1667. He, with his wife, three children, and
Simon Willard, his wife's brother, came to
New England and settled prior to August 4,
1634, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Simon
Willard was one of the founders of Concord,
and he was captain of foot in 1646, major in
1654, and at his death in 1673 "the colony
.lost one of its most distinguished members."
Dolor Davis was a carpenter and a master
builder. He received his first grant of land
in Cambridge, June 4, 1635, and others later.
He removed to Duxbury, August 5, 1638-39.
was admitted freeman, and was granted land
there in 1640. He was a resident in Barn-
stable in 1643, and was admitted a freeman
there June 2, 1646. He held many public
offices in Barnstable, including those of high-
way surveyor and constable. He and his wife
were dismissed from the Duxbury church to
the Barnstable church, August 27, 1648. In
1656 he left Plymouth Colony and returned
to Massachusetts Bay, where he purchased, in
Concord, one hundred and fifty acres with a
house. In 1666 he returned to Barnstable,
where he died in June, 1673. His will was
made September 13, 1672, proved July 2, 1673.
He mentions his sons Simon and Samuel as
already having their portions ; eldest son
John ; son-in-law Lewis, and Mary his wife ;
and daughter Ruth Hall. Children: i. John,
born in England about 1626, to v\'hom was
bequeathed the Concord homestead. 2. Mary,
horn in England about 1631. 3. Elizabeth,
died young. 4. Lieutenant Simon, born in
America, mentioned below. 5. Samuel, born
in America and lived in Concord and Bed-
ford. 6. Ruth, born in Barnstable. March
24, 1645.
(II) Lieutenant Simon Davis, son of Dolor
Davis, was born in America and settled in
Concord. His homestead was near his father's
house, on a farm given him by his father. He
was one of Captain Thomas Wheeler's troop-
ers in the expedition of 1675 to the Nip-
muck country, and he took command when
the captain was wounded. He received his
commission as lieutenant, July 2, 1689. He
was admitted a freeman, March 21, 1699, and
v\^as deputy to the general court in 1689-90-92-
1705. He died in Concord, June 14, 1713,
and his will was proved July 3, 1713. He
married, December 12, 1660, Mary, born at
Concord, July 12, 1640, daughter of James
and Eleanor Blood. Children : Dr. Simon,
born October 12, 1661, mentioned below;
Mary, October 3, 1663; Sarah, March 11 or
15, 1666; James, January 19, 166S: Eleanor,
October 22, 1672; Ebenezer, June i, 1676;
Hannah, April i, 1679.
(Ill) Dr. Simon (2) Davis, son of Lieu-
tenant Simon (i) Davis, was born in Con-
cord, October 12, 1661. He settled there, and
was one of the most distinguished physicians
of his day. He married (first) Elizabeth,
daughter of Henry Woodhouse, of Concord,
and she died November 12, 171 1. He mar-
ried (second) Mary Wood. Children by first
wife: Dr. John, born November 19, 1689,
mentioned below; Simon, September.7, 1692;
Henry, February 23, 1694; Elizabeth, March
28, 1695 ; JNIary, November 8. 1701 : Samuel,
March 6, 1703; Eleanor, March 4, 1705-06;
Peter, September 25, 1707.
(I\") Dr. John Davis, son of Dr. Simon
(2) Davis, was born in Concord, November
19, 1689, died November 16, 1762. He lived
in Concord and Acton. He was a physician.
He married, December 17, 1713. Abigail Dud-
ley. Children: i. John, born July 15, 1714,
mentioned below. 2. Ezekiel, June 8, 1717;
married Mary Gibson ; their son was Captain
Isaac, killed at Concord. 3. Micah, February
15, 1720. 4. Isaac, October 24, 1723. 5. Abi-
gail, March 22, 1726-27. 6. Samuel, April 23,
1730- 7- Sarah, married. May i, 1757, John
Robbins. The will of Dr. John bequeaths to
wife Abigail, sons John. Ezekiel, Micah and
Samuel, daughters Abigail Melvin, Sarah
Robbins. Mentions brother Simon Davis ; will
was dated September 3, 1762.
(V) John (2), son of Dr. John (i) Davis,
was born at Concord, July 15, 17 14, died at
Littleton, Massachusetts, October 6, 1753. He
married Hannah . Children, born at
Concord: John, June i, 1735, mentioned be-
low. Born at Acton : Ezekiel, February,
1736-37, settled in Shirley; Abel, May 14,
1739: Hannah, February 28, 1740; Elisha,
twin of Hannah; Silas, November 8, 1743;
Jonathan, October 9, 1749. Born at Little-
ton: Rebecca, July 9, 1750; Mary, February
20, 1753.
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(\1) John (3(. M.ii , , _.) Davis,
was l)orn June i. 17.15. at LuiHunl. He lived
at Acton an'l IJttlcton. MiiLlli^cx cnunly.
Massachusetts, and settled ai)out the time of
his niarriai,'e at Shirley, Worcester county.
His hrother^, ICzekiel, lilislia, Silas and Ji>na-
than. also settled in that town, lli^ home
was the farm lately owned hy the \\'il.s<,)ns
nd previously by Th<jnias Clark, where most
1 his children were lx>rn. He served his
nntry in the French and Indian war. He
IS sergeant in Captain Henry Haskell's
mpany of niiniite-iiien. Colonel James I'res-
tt's regiment, uii the Lexinj^ton alarm. He
T his son was a drinnmer in Captain Mills's
company, Colonel Joseph X'ose's rej^jiment,
1777-79. He or his son was in Lieutenant
Holden's com|)any. Colonel Jonathan Reed's
regiment, enlisting in -Septemher, 1777, in the
•■■'ntinental army for three years; sergeant in
iptain r.arnes's company. Colonel Timothy
i-elow's regiment, from March to Decem-
ber. 1777. crediteil to Wrcntham, residence
Shirley, twenty months, twenty-seven days
as sergeant, and ten months as private, then
for three months sergeant again. He was
sergeant in Sylvanus Smith's company,
lonel I'.igelow's regiment, at Stillwater,
,dle\ l"orgc %nd Providence. 1777-78. He
IS sergeant in Cajitain Dow's company,
lonel I'.igelow's regiment. January i. 1780.
.March i. f'loth he and his son John seem
have done long and faithful service in the
ar. In 1788 he removed with that part of
his family that had not passed their minority
to Reading, \ermont, and erected the first
saw mill in that section and turned a wilder-
ness into a well-tilled farm. "He fulfilled the
mission of life with admirable precision, and
went down to his grave, leaving 1)chind an
li>>norablc and useful memorv." He <lied in
^'.ly. 1808.
John Davis married, at .\cton, June 2,
1757, Huldah Thayer. Children. Ixirn at
."shirley: i. John, born atx^ut 1758-59; mar-
ried Anna Ilolden: removed to Westminster,
where he jiassed the first ten years of his
married life, then returned to .Shirley, where
he lived the rcmaimler of his life, and died
February 8. 1827; had thirteen children. 2.
Cornelius, born 1761 ; was in the revolution-
ary army three years and wa« ensign in Shay's
rebel army ; settled at Cavendish. N'crmont ;
children: Hiram. Luther and Lucy, settled
in Canada. ,v Hulilah. Iwirn at Shirley, No-
vember 3, I7'>,i; married Philemon Holdcn.
4. .Samuel. .March i.v •7^'3: married Phebe
Spaulding and Mary Coijswcll. 5. Lucy, mar-
ried. 1785. Xehemiah F-tabrin">k. C\ Ezekiel.
mentioned below. 7. Thankful, .\ugust 21,
1772: married i.,^,^,,, ,.dmcr- '■ • ' '•■'■ M,
1858. 8. liliakim, March 1, 1 1
Olive Hawlliorn, of Rcadin:;. " :-;
removed front Reailing i ni the
sanjc state; had oiijbt rbii 'tathan,
OctolxT 11, 17: f
Lexington ; h.i i
farm at Wind
''*•'■ '5. 1777; ' I
.Sallv .Mien; <;-
(XH) 1
Ijorn at > 1-
her 11,1 M
when the 1-
ing and h .g
the forest atul cniiivaluig ilic farm. He was
a farmer .11 Readinij all bi« active life and
there all T " " At the age
of twent 11- 17, 1 791,
itethia Gi..:.... ... . , jq, 1770. died
March 9, 1850. Children, l)orn at Reading,
\ermont: I. Harry, .Vugust 7, 1792. died
.August 10. 1793. 2. Fflmund, October 10.
179,1; married. .November 2, 1816, Rebecca
Pliilbrick and had nine chililren. 3. Betsey,
Hctober II, 1795; married, .April 2, 1817,
Sewall Shattuck antl had seven children. 4.
Solomon, mentioned l)clo\v. 5. .Almond,
March 24. 1799, died September 30, 1855;
married (first) March 18. 1823, Semira
Pratt; (second) Stisan Pratt, Febniary 18,
1832: (third) Crace .Stearns, ft. Clarissa,
July 7, 1801 ; marricfi, February 15, 1823,
.America .Amsden ; one child. 7. Sophia, N*o-
vember 5, 1803; niarricfl, February 15, 1822,
Henry .Mcgrath and had eleven children. 8.
Cynthia. January 28, i8<yj; married. May,
1824, George Clyde and had seven children.
9. John. .April 15. 180S: marricl l.>i i', _>^^
1834. Lydia Pratt and lived h.
\'crmont : four children. 10. t ■ .,
July 15, 1810; married Flvira Whcclci, 1 an-
nie H. White and Polly Morcy : five chililren.
II. Lorintha. .'^ci)tcmbcr 20. 1812; married.
January' 19. 1836. Francis ("urtis and had ten
children. 12. Lucy. October 2'>. 1811 mar-
ried, Fcbruar)' 6. 1847, William G. (!•
(\"HI) Solomon, son of Fzckicl D.i
born at Readim:. April 3. 1707. He sct;!< 1 in
St. Lawrence c<>tmt\. New N'ork. He mar-
ried. May, 1824. I'anny ("iraiv'- • ' 'od
October 15, 1841. Children: \1-
pha ; Fanny; .Alpha Ezekicl, '■ <-
low; Benjamin \\'.. June 5. 1831. m.iriied,
1854. .Abbip Withev : children: Jenny J., born
.August .; ' ' ' :ly 13. xRfu:
Frank 1". nny I... Jan-
uary 20. ! ~ ^ ', mbcr 8. 18/18.
.Solomon r>avis died on the way to Illinois,
where he intended to settle, and his wife con-
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tinned to their destination and lived the re-
mainder of her life there.
(IX) Alpha Ezckiel, son of Solomon Davis,
was born September 2, 1829, in St. Lawrence
county, New York. He was educated in the
public schools there, and worked on a farm
until he was twenty years old. At the age of
sixteen he went to Vermont and four years
later came to Worcester, r\Iassachusetts. He
went west with die family, but returned to
Vermont and lived with an uncle four years.
At Worcester he was employed in the State
Hospital for the Insane for about three years,
and then spent two years in Illinois. He
started in the railroad business in 1859 and
continued for a period of forty-eight years.
He was employed on the old Norwich &
\\'orcester railroad as brakeman, baggage-
man, freight conductor and passenger con-
ductor. He was well known for a generation
by the patrons of this railroad and retired
wath an enviable record of faithfulness and
efficiency. He is a communicant of the
Protestant Episcopal church of Norwich. He
married (first) October 6, 1852, Jane E.
Withey, born March 14, 1828, died July 17,
1855. He married (second) January 6, 1858,
Lucy Frances Withey. sister of his first wife.
She was born September 23, 183 1. He had
one child by his first wife, James Clarence,
mentioned below.
(X) James Clarence, son of Alpha Ezekiel
Davis, was born February 19, 1854. He has
been a member of the Worcester police force
since 1896. He married, September 28, 1875,
Sarah R. Cowan. Children: i. Alpha F.,
married Jennie Murphy, of Worcester, and
has twin sons, Reginald and Winthrop. 2.
Clarence Theodore, married Lillian Peter-
son ; children : Clarence F. and Ruth. 3.
IMarion Cowan, married John I. Hoyt ; chil-
dren : Clarence J. and Charlotte Louise. 4.
Charlotte Louisa, married William Hanna-
The ancient home of the Skil-
SKILTON ton (formerly Skelton) fam-
ily is in Cumberlandshire,
England, in the parish of Skelton, from which
the family took its name. The name was
written de Skelton as long as the family
owned the Skelton estate, or parish, and re-
sided there. The prefix was dropped by emi-
grating portions of the family, and finally
entirely omitted after the middle of the fif-
teenth century. Some derive the name of
the parish directly from the British language
— Skell, water, and tone, town. Others be-
lieve that the town was not named until the
latter half of the Anglo-Saxon period, or
possibly as late as 1090, when its cultivation
began. Thus, they derive the name from the
Anglo-Saxon language — Skaling, a hut. Huts
were built in numbers in the forest of Ingle-
wood to shelter the herdsmen who tended
the vast herds which fed in the ancient for-
est, forming in time a village; and, when
cultivation began, the place was calle 1 Skal-
ing-ton, tone, tune, etc.. having previously
been adopted from the British into the Saxon
language, and used as now in English in Skel-
ton.
The earliest de Skelton mentioned repre-
sented Cumberland in Parliament, in the time
of Edward I, about 1300. John de Skelton
was knight of the shire in 13 16, reign of Ed-
ward II. Adam de Skelton was member of
Parliament 1318. John de Skelton was mem-
ber of Parliament 1324-29. Richard de Skel-
ton was member of Parliament in 1331, reign
of Edward III.
Thomas de Skelton was knight of the shire
'" ^ZZ7^ reign of Edward HI. Sir Clement
de Skelton, about 1350, married the heiress
of Orton, of Cumberland, and in default of
heirs a part of the property passed out of
the family. He was four times knight of
the shire, between 1375 and 1306, in the reign
of Richard II. Between the reign of Edward
II. and Henry VIII. several individuals of
this family distinguished themselves in the
Scotch and French wars. As a token of su-
perior strength and valor they preserved, in
Westminster Abbey, a large sword equal to
that of Edward III., which it was said was
worn by some of them in attendance upon
the king in France. Hence came the family
coat-of-arms, viz. : Azure, a fez between three
fleurs de lis, or. It appears that such was
the marked character of their prowess that
several dififerences were granted in their arms,
each indicating the individual personal suc-
cess as a commander against the French. Sir
Thomas de Skelton was steward of the Duchy
of Lancaster. He died in 1416, and was
buried in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. He was
probably father of Johannes de Skelton, who
was member of Parliament 1401, 1406 and
1422. Both he and his son John were noted
among the gentry at the visitation of 1433.
The latter was sheriflf of Cumberland in the
tenth, nineteenth, twenty-fourth and twenty-
ninth years of Henry VI., and was in Parlia-
ment in 1450. For his prowess as a w'arrior
he received a grant from the crown of one
hundred acres at Armathwaite. His brother
Richard was sherif? of Cumberland in 1427,
and was with Henry V. in France at the
battle of Agincourt, about 1416. He mar-
ried the heiress of Branthwaite, and estab-
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lislKil the family of Skcltons of LSranthwaitc,
receiving a jjraiit of arms for his valor.
Robert Skclton, Escjuirc, member of Par-
liament for Carlisle, in 1471.
John Skcllnii, Esquire, sheriff of Cumber-
lam 1, in 151 1.
Cieorj;e Skelton, Knif^ht, was sheriff of
Cumberland in 1520.
Sir John Skelton, of Norfolk, married
Anne ISoleyn, aunt of Queen Anne Rolcyn.
Rev. John Skeltnn, of Norfolk, was Poet
Laureate of lienry \ III.
John Skelton, .\rmif,'er, was sheriff of Cum-
berland 1633 (Charles 1.).
Sir John Skelton. one of the generals of
Charles I. and Charles II., was lieutenant
},'(>vernor of tiie city and fortress of Ply-
mniith, i(*)2. At that time his son. Sir iJevil
.Skelton. was captain of the guards, and soon
after he was minister successively to the
courts of Germany. Holland and !•" ranee.
Charles Skelton, brother of I'.evil, not
known to fame, lost his life in battle in the
wars of the period.
Charles .Skelton, Lieutenant (jeneral in the
1-rench service, (Irand Croix, Conuii;mder of
the Order of .St. Louis, married the daui;hter
of Lord Dacre. She ilied 1741.
Henry Skelton. of I'.rantlnvaite Hall. t,an-
eral in the army, and .i;overnor of Portsmouth,
was en(.;a!.;ed in blanders and in Scotland in
1745. I)\ini; without issue, he l)e(|neatlie<l his
estate to his friend, Jones, who had saveil his
life in battle, the Jones family taking the
name of Skelton.
Rev. Dr. Philip Skelton. of Ireland, irom
the .\rneathwaite famil\, was a noted Epis-
cojialian ilivine and commentator.
The name of Skilton l)eint; even now very
rare in Enijland. it is probable that the chani^c
from Skelton to<ik place about the bei^inning
of the eii;hteenth century, one of the first of
the name may have been John Skilton, men-
tioned below.*
(I) Dr. Henry Skilton, immigrant ances-
tor, oldest child of John .ind Mary ( liennitt)
Skilton. who were married January J3, 1717,
in the parish of Saint Michaels, Coventry,
EiiL;land. was there born .NovemlieT lo. 1718,
and bajitized December 3. 1 7 18. He had sis-
ters .Mary and .Sarah, and also a brother John,
whose descendants were coinnuuiicaled with
from .America as late as 1833. The family
removed to Kumsey. Hampshire county, Eni;-
land. about 17^5. and the mother died soon
afterward. The father entered the P.ritish
navy. Henry left home March 31, 1734, and
enlere<l the navy. He sailed .\pril i. 1735,
* (The ahovc w.is compiled from llic notes gath-
ered !>>■ Dr. .\ver>' Jiidd Skilton .ibiuil 1850.)
in a K"'" -'"' •■"■1
I...-, ,., I|,c
ye...
in lio-i
1
lor
a
tunc
lived ai
'.ts.
IL
cX'.lA
first in I'le :
ut. II
cm
tof>k the pla
dr.-" ' •" ■
•n .\vcry.
til
I 'AC
A as
w :'
.ck,
near iiosioti, Ma-
to
have rendered .sue:
ol-
died as to attract 1
11:11 ki_'l .; ■
1 to
receive an appointment and ai>
surgeon.
He married, July 9, 1741.
chihl of Joseph and Tabitln
ery, Ixjrn L'ebruary 25, 1;
necticiit. In 1740 he !■
ton, C' li- • "
practii.
i7»:o h<
and continued jiractice 1
he removed to Watert-
died there June 7, iX- .;r
years. His wife died < ' Ho
was an able, pious and
the founilers of the "^
Church in what is now i
He engaged in farming on .1 .uxl
in other business as well. ( "•v,
liorn .\i>ril 5, 1742, died .\pril 17. 1
beth, l'"ebruary 11, 1743-44, died ^
I, 1749: .Mary, I'ebruary 12. 174'
F.lisha .\twood ; .\very, .\pril 30, I74<'<, men-
tioned below; James, Jiuie 1, 1750. ilied No-
vember, 1755: Tabitha, .\ugust 26. 1752. fiied
July 28, 1753: Tabitha, Decemlicr 12. 1754,
died November J~, 1755; .Sarali, .April 11,
1757, married .Abraham Richards, and died
November 30, 1 79 V in Yates cotmty. New
^■ork.
(II) Avery, son of Henry and Tabitha
(.\very) Skilton, was Ivirn at Preston, Con-
nectictit. .April 30, 1748, died at Wateriown.
Connecticut, .August 27, 1832. He livcl for
a time at P.ethlehem, Connecticut. He mar-
ried, March 2(). 1771. Parthenia Judd, Imrn
.August fi. 1754: she <lied at Walcrtown,
.March 30. 1831) (see Judd family ». Chil-
dren: I. Millicent, Ixirn Octoln-r 5. 1772;
married .Anthony (iiirnsey, who died Decem-
ber 30, 1848: she died May 25, 1839; no
chililren. 2. J.nines, bom April 10. 1777:
mentioned IkIow. 3. Lucy. l)orn Julv 21,
1780; niarrieil Jesse Mine: had two children
who died tuunarricd. 4. Henry, Ixirn July
17. 1783: had four son- •■ ' '■■- ' — '-ters.
5. Mary. lx>rn May 22. it)cr
25. 1822: unmarried. < • )c-
tobcr 2. 1788; died SepleiiilK:r 12, 1830, at
Lyons. New York : married Cyrus .Avery. 7.
742
CONNECTICUT
Tabitha, born May 2, 1797; never married;
died October 30, 1878, at South Farms, Con-
necticut.
(III) James, son of Avery and Parthenia
(Juddj Skilton, was born April 10, 1777, in
Bethlehem, Connecticut, and died April 9,
1848, in Watertown, Connecticut. He mar-
ried, June 30, 1799, Chloe, daughter of Eli-
jah and Hannah (Scovill) Steele (see Steele
family). Children: i. Elijah, born May 17,
1800; married, April i, 1827, Elizabeth Wil-
son; (second) March 25, 1738, Mrs. Sarah
Remington, at Ravenna, Ohio. 2. Dr. Avery
Judd, born February i, 1802; married, March
2, 1828, Mary Augusta, daughter of Cyrus
and Rebecca (Munn) Candee : he died March
20, 1858, at Troy. New York, where he was
a physician. 3. Julius James Gardner, born
June 24, 1804; died unmarried, August 17,
1858, at Troy, New York. 4. Henry Bennett,
born August 29, 1806; died March 13, 1894,
at Watertown, Connecticut ; married, Novem-
ber 19, 1832, Julia Clark; (second) Novem-
ber 19, 1838, Emily, daughters of Merritt Sr.
and Katurah (Smith) Clark. 5. John Ches-
ter, born April 30, 1809 ; mentioned below.
6. Hannah Maria, born February 4, 1812 ;
died January 18, 1897, at Middlebury, Con-
necticut ; married, March 22, 1840, Gould
Smith, son of Merritt Sr. and Katurah
(Smith) Clark. 7. Samuel William South-
mayd, born June 20, 1814; died April, 1894,
at Morris, Connecticut ; married, November
26, 1846, Mary, daughter of Joel and Emma
(French) White. 8. Millicent Parthenia,
born December 24, 1816: married, December
2, 1842, Rev. Ebenezer O. Beers. 9. George
Frederick, born February 11, 1820: died July
18, 1895, at W'atertown, Connecticut; mar-
ried. May 4, 1841, Wealthie JMunn, who died
December 3, 1848; (second) Abigail, daugh-
ter of George Thomas and Almira ( Richards)
W'ilcox. 10. Mary Augusta, born November
14, 1822 ; married, December 29, 1847, JMer-
ritt Clark, Jr., son of Merritt Sr. and Katurah
(Smith) Clark, of Prospect, Connecticut.
(IV) John Chester, son of James and
Chloe (Steele) Skilton, was born April 30,
1809. in Watertown, died in Plymouth, Con-
necticut, December 29, 1851. For twenty-
five years he was identified with the Seth
Thomas Clock Works of Thomaston, Con-
necticut. He married in Northfield, Connec-
ticut, Anna, born February 18, 1810, died at
Hartford, Connecticut, July 14, 1891, daugh-
ter of Levi and Anna (Guernsey) Heaton.
Children : Anna, De Witt Clinton and Chloe
Cornelia.
(V) De Witt Clinton, son of Jolin Chester
and Anna (Heaton) Skilton, was born in
Thomaston, Connecticut, January 11, 1839.
He began his business career in 1855 in Hart-
ford, in the dry goods trade with C. S.
vVeatherby. In October, 1861, he entered the
employ of the Hartford Fire Insurance Com-
pany as a clerk in the office. On August 19,
1862, he enlisted for the civil war service in
Company B, Twenty-second Connecticut Vol-
unteer Infantry, and was mustered into service
September 20 following, as second lieutenant
of the company. The regiment was a part
of the Army of the Potomac under Major-
General Heintzelman, in brigade of General
Robert Cowdin, and later Colonel Burr Por-
ter. On February 16, 1863, he was pro-
moted to first lieutenant, and served with
honor until mustered out, July 7, 1863. On
his return to Hartford he resumed his former
position, and December i, 1867, was chosen
secretary of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Com-
pany. He held that position from December
I, 1867, to August I, 1888, when he was
elected vice-president of the company and
acting president. On February 12, 1891, he
succeeded Flenry Kellogg to the presidency,
and under his management the business grew
rapidly. When he entered the service as sec-
retary in 1867 the capital was $600,000, the
assets $1,234,195, and the surplus $113,683.
On January i, 1910, the capital had more
than trebled, the amount being $2,000,000;
the assets had increased to $9,941,424.23, and
the surplus to $3,066,837.38. The premium
income for the year 1868 was $1,219,211,
and for the year 1909 was $4,889,175.87.
President Skilton's career has been con-
temporary with the years of the great growth
in American insurance, and he has been iden-
tified with all the organized effort, and hence
gave much time and thought to the upbuild-
ing of the National Association. He was
selected by the New York City Association
of Underwriters to represent the Connecticut
companies of the committee which prepared
the standard policy for fire insurance. By
many states this form has been adopted and
made obligatory. The Phoenix Fire Insur-
ance Company owes much of its success to
his able management. He is a director of the
Hartford National Bank, and a corporator
and trustee of the State Savings Bank. He
is a member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States, of Robert
Tyler Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
and of the Hartford Club. He was secre-
tary of the National Board of Underwriters
three years ; vice-president seven years, and
president three years. For seven years he
was committeeman of the West Middle School
district. Fie is a Republican in politics, and
I//; :' itHltiiUHLlLilliHUIliin! '.L.riii' ' ■< '''luawiHuimiiiinuwimuniiminiiinniiiiiji.iiiiii!
f^Cc-s^
f
CONNECTICUT
7Ai
is altiliatcd with the Asyhiiii Avcmic Con-
grcj^aticjiial Churcli.
Ho marriuil, August 8. 1865, Ann Jeancttc
Andrews, burn Aiimi>t J5, iH^j, ilaugliter ui
Lvman and Klizabctli (iJrown) Andrews, of
Martforil. One child, John Lyman, horn
June 4. 1868, <lied November i, 1887.
(The Steele Line).
(I) John Steele, immitcrant, was l>orn in
coynty Essex, Lngland. and died at Farm-
in^rton. Connecticut, November 25, 1655. He
came to this country when a youni; man. about
i6,^i-.^j. and settled lirsl in V'aiiibrid^'c, Mas-
sachusetts, then in Hartford, Connecticut, and
tinally in Farmington. His brother, Cieorge
Steele, who also came to Hartford, <lied in
1W13. very old. John marrietl (first) Rachel
. in Kngland. She died in 1053. He
married (second), soon afterward, .Mercy
Seymour, sister of Ridiard Seymour, who
survived him. Children : John, married
Mercy W'arriner, who married (second)
Thomas Hill: Lydia, married. March ,u.
1657. James liird: Mar>-. twin with Lydia,
married William Judd; Hannah, born 1655;
Sar.di, born about i'\^8. married Lieutenant
TliMmas Judd; .'^amueI. mentioneil below. The
order of birth of the diildren is not known.
(H) Samuel, son of John and Mercy (Sey-
mour) Steele, was born in Fnglaml in 1626-
27. and came witli his parents to .\nierica.
lie was a le:idinij citizen of r'armington, Con-
necticut ; deputy to the general assembly in
i(/(8-(')9-72-77 ; lieutenant of the I'armington
train l)and in i')74. He had a grant of land
from the general court. May 9. 1672, of two
luuulred acres. He marrie<l Slary, ilaughter
of llun. JauKs ;ind .Mice linosey; her father
was a i)romiiieiit citi/en i>f W'elherslieM. She
was born .'September 10. U\^S- ''••^'1 »' l*'arm-
ington, in 1702. Children: James, Iwrn .Au-
gust 31, i('>44. mentioned below: Mary. De-
cember 5, \(>-,2: Rachel. October .^o, 1654.
livctl at W'ethersfield. married Jonathan
Smith: Sarah. bai)tized December 29. i'»5f),
flieil unmarried; Samuel, born March it,
"'58-59. died young; John, baptized Decem-
ber 10. KVji. died inimarried: Hannah, l)orn
1688; F.benezer, August 13. |U)I, married,
February 15. 1705. Sarah Hart.
(HI) Captain James, son of Samuel and
^^ary (I!otisey) Steele, was born .\ugust 31,
1644. died May 15. 1713. He was a merchant
in Wetliersfield. and captain of the train band.
He married. July 19. "187, .\nna. <langhter
of Captain Samuel and Elizabeth (Hollister)
Welles. She was Ixirn in r^>8. at Wethers-
field, and died in 1730. aged seventy-one. She
ni.Trricil ( ^ccmid I Xovcmlitr 20. i~i8. I.iiiu-^
Dr. J..
Iieiow
I'
tobcr 28, 1702. married U dham Hooker;
Davi'l. Jnrtc X. i^rvi
•tain
J ;i at
\- ■ ■
ary 10, 1715. Li;
Fr, and .^.Tmh it,
(•• ti:c
'= ..rn
:'5;
:>9.
Sarah, July 17, 17
mentioned below :
married Nathan 1
cut; Dr. .Samuel, I
January 27;. 1724 _■;.
I'bcnezer. .M.iy 18, 1727
dletrin ; Jonathan, ma;
Elizur, 1736. married, Novcnil)cr 17, 1705,
^L^rv Rood; Lucy. June 24. 1737. married
Jonathan Pitkin, residetl at I I
(\) James, son of Dr. |. I/.t-
beth (Hollister) Steele
1719. ilifd July 27. 177;
daughter o'f Caleb %i<j
Cowles. granddaughter ui J..>cpii Ui«)diiiril,
son of Thonias WmwIfMnl. whn cTme fniin
Englaml to I . jn
"Wm. She nM
at lierlin, t .... .t
Berlin: i. Mercy.
1/(54, .Mexandcr i
Connecticut; died in iS_^t,. j
18, I74'>; married Lucretia
scph. S ■ • • ' ■ - - - -
Cliurclr
cut. 4
Eleazer .\^pulwali; she dicil .May 4. 1832.
5. Thomas. Jtdv. 175?: '1'<»»t Vrvvcmlfr 13,
1761. 6. Eliv ncd
below. 7. J. icil
August 3. i.s^.- ,. .,,.,. .,..,; De-
cember. 177'!.
(\n Flitnh. son of James and Mercy
I < vas iKirn at Berlin. Jan-
II. 1 1830. He was a soldier
itl ini ■ .. I .--• .
(\Tptairi
('•11. ill
744
CONNECTICUT
York ; in Captain Thomas Converse's com-
pany, Colonel Heman Swift's regiment of
the Connecticut Line in the Continental army,
1781-83. He married Hannah, daughter of
Ezekiel and Alindvvell (Barber) Scovill.
Their daughter, Chloe, born October 2, 1780,
married, June 30, 1799, James Skilton (see
Skilton).
(The Judd Line).
The surname Judd is one of the oldest Eng-
lish surnames, and is identical with Jude, an
old and now almost obsolete personal name.
Judson and Judkins are formed from the
same name. Henry Judde, of county Kent,
and John Judde. of Oxfordshire, were men-
tioned in the Hundred Rolls of 1275, and
the family has been in Kent down to the
present time. Sir Andrew Judd, a dealer in
skins and furs, of London, son of John Judd,
of Tunbridge, Kent, was mayor of London in
1550, a man of wealth and influence. He
endowed a grammar school in Tunbridge. His
only child was a daughter Alice. The coat-
of-arms of this family is : Gules, a fesse
raguled between three boars' heads couped
argent. It is likely that all the Judds are
descended from this Kent family. The only
other coat-of-arms of the Judd family is
plainly of the same origin, and indicates re-
lationship. The Judds of Middlesex bear:
Gules, a fesse raguled between three boars'
heads erased argent. Crest : on a ducal coro-
net or, a cockatrice, wings displayed proper.
The family was also prominent in county Es-
sex, England.
(I) Deacon Thomas Judd, immigrant an-
cestor, came from England in 1633 o^" 1634,
and settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
where he had a home lot granted to him Au-
gust, 1634. It was in that part of the town
known as the West End, on the road to
Watertown. He had other land granted in
1635, and was admitted a freeman ]\Iay 25
that year. He removed to Hartford, Con-
necticut, in 1636, and had two acres for a
home lot. near the "Charter Oak.'' He was
one of the first proprietors and settlers of
Farmington, Connecticut, and removed there
from Hartford about 1644. His home lot was
on the main street, and he was a substantial
farmer and an influential man. He was dep-
uty to the general court several times. He
was a charter member of the Farmington
chur-ch, and was its second deacon. He died
November 12, 1688. aged about eighty. His
first wife died in Farmington, and he mar-
ried (second ) December 2, 1679, Clemence
Mason, widow of Thomas Mason, of North-
ampton, and resided in Northampton the re-
mainder of his life. He was selectman there
in 1682. Children, order of birth not known:
Elizabeth, married, December 2j, 1653, Sam-
uel Loomis ; William, mentioned below ; Thom-
as, born about 1638, married Sarah Steele ;
John, born about 1640, married Mary How-
kins ; Benjamin, born about 1642, married
Mary Lewis ; Mary, born about 1644, married,
January i, 1663, Thomas Loomis: Ruth, bap-
tized February 7, 1647, married John Steele;
Philip, baptized September 2, 1649, married
Hannah Loomis; Samuel, born about 1651.
(II) Sergeant William Judd, son of Deacon
Thomas Judd, married, March 30, 1658, Alary,
daughter of John and Rachel Steele, of Farm-
ington ; she died October 2, 1718, aged about
eighty. He lived in Farmington, and was
counted a well-to-do citizen for those days.
The inventory of his estate was presented No-
vember 5, 1690. His age when he died was
about fifty-five years. Children : Alary, bap-
tized July 22, 1660; Elizabeth, July 22, 1660,
died young; Thomas, October 13, 1662; Wil-
liam, January 8, 1665, died young ; Thomas,
born 1663, mentioned below ; John, 1667 ;
Rachel, 1670, died unmarried 1703; Samuel,
1673 ; Daniel, 1675 : Elizabeth, 1678.
(III) Deacon Thomas (2) Judd, son of
Sergeant William and Mary (Steele) Judd,
was born in 1663, and settled in Waterbury,
Connecticut. He was a blacksmith by trade,
and conducted a farm. He was town clerk,
deacon of the church, captain of militia, jus-
tice of the peace, and a deputy to the general
court more than twenty years between 1696
and 1733. His will was dated April 26, 1738,
and bequeathed to his son William his silver-
headed cane, which descended later to Syl-
vester Judd, of Northampton. He died Jan-
uary 4, 1747. He married, February 9, 16S8,
Sarah, daughter of Stephen and Hannah ( As-
trood) Freeman, who died September 8, 1738,
aged sixty-eight. Stephen Freeman was one
of the first settlers of Alilford, Connecticut,
and later of Newark, New Jersey. Children :
William, born Alay 7, 1689, mentioned below;
Martha, September 11, 1692: Rachel, Novem-
ber 13, 1694: Sarah, .April 23, 1697, died No-
vember 3, 1725-26; Hannah, July 2, 1699,
died Alarch 12, 1713 ; Alary, January 30, 1701 ;
Elizabeth, July 23, 1704; Ruth, Alay 9, 1707;
Stephen, November 30, 1709. died June 25,
1715-
(I\') Captain AA'illiam (2) Judd, son of
Thomas (2) Judd, was born May 7, 1689,
died January 29, 1772. He lived a few years
in Kensington Society, Farmington, now
Berlin, and removed to Waterbury. He final-
ly settled near the center of Westbury parish,
now the town of Watertown. His will is
dated January 23, 1772. He was a captain of
LDNM-dlLL T
iiiiliii.i. .iinl .1 upu -riii.iM\ I I i till- j^'cncral
ctiiirl many s«.>si<>n^. IK- niarrii-il ( hr>i i Jan-
uary 21, 1713, Mary Kixit, who dicil l)cccni-
licr 10, 1751, (lauj^htcr of Stcplicn and Sarali
I W'ailswortli ) KoDt. of I'arniinyton. He
married (sccomli Hope I.cc, widow. Chil-
dren: TiniDtliy, horn Ucccinher j8, 1713. nicn-
ticincd below; Stephen, Anj^ust 17, 1715;
llannal), Scptenilicr 12, 1717, died youn^; ;
lonatlian, Octnlier 4. 17117: DanKhter, <lied
• 'inij; : I'llnathan, Aui^nst 7. 1724; Mary. No-
inl)er 22. 17J7; William, January 12, 1730;
>. trail, Xovemljer 30, 171,2, dieil April 27,
( \' ) Timothy, son of Captain William (2)
Jiidd, was horn Dccemher 2.S, 1713. died Jan-
uary 2^, i/f/h lie ijraduated at Yale Col-
lc'i;e in 1737, and lived in Westhury parisli.
lie reprcM-iited Walerhury in the ijeneral
cmirt twenty-one sessions. l74^'-73. He was
ajipoiiited a justice of tile jieace every year
from May, I7')5, to May, 17S3, and held other
offices. He married (first) .March 2(), 1744,
Mary Clark, who died November 8, 1744,
daii^;iiter of Thomas Clark. lie marrie(r
(second) Octoi)er 9, 1749, Millicent .South-
mayd, dauphter of Samuel and Marj^aret
( Soutiimayd ) Gaylord, anil widow of John
.^outiimayd : she was lK>rn 1720, died March
-•'), 17<'3. He married (third) .August 8,
17^(4. .Ann Scdijwick, widow of I'.enjaniin
.'^cdiiwick. This provetl an unhappy niar-
ri.iL;e, and they se])arateil. He married
( fourth) June h. 17S0, Mary I'oote. who died
in October, 17S2. widow of Samuel l'\Kitc.
He married ( fifth) a widow Clauson, of Stam-
ford. Children: Mary, Imrn December 11,
1751 : Parthenia, .August 6, 1754. married,
March 2i>. 1771. .\very Skilton. son of Dr.
Henry ."^kilton, of lui.ijland (see Skilton fam-
ily), died .March 30, 1S39: .\llyn Southmayil,
born October, 175'^): (iiles, lx)rn (X'tobcr 20.
1758, died September 3, 1739: Millicent, born
\ut;ust 21. i7r)o. died .Vu^^ust 30. 1762: Tim-
othv, born lanuarv 21. 1763. died Mav 26,
I'he names of our families
\\ \RXI:R are the jjroduct (^f the Middle
.Xses. To the world a hless-
ini;, tc^ mankind a ])oint of distinction, names
serve a beneficial use. In tlie delineation of
names we see the character and habits of an
ancient pi-ople e.xjircssctl : in them we trace
the chani.;es they have undcr^;one from the
most remote time.
In the southwestern jiart of Knplan<l, near
the iKtuudary of Wale>. dwelt a race of people
ciii;a,!:;ed in ai^ricultural pursuits. Tiiese people
in v,l|.,!,t'iii-e were forced to protect them-
<T, who
f War-
. I he
:<". nnd
sel\. '
api
atbl
into the warn the
appron'-l 'iiv llr'-
"U.
Dm
col'
ri\i
hcl.i
nei
ihr.
tanr. i;i 11. m.
sliield>, and ai'
1 art-, of the n ; ^
church of (Ireat \
Warner arms .ire
their motto, '
terpreted. "\\
alone." The •
tivcs of the f.r
have l)een of .1
authority has >t.iu<l ^tseial
killeil in relij.;ii>us riot-, or ni;i
liie .Man..i
hiiinireil and <
John Warner. >.
tliani : his son John held it until 1473; ins
son Henry seized of it .March 21. 1504; his
son John, (ientleman. held it until his death
in 1.352: he also held the .Manor of ilnisches;
Henry, his brother, an heir, held it until his
death in 155^1. when it jw.sscd to the heirs of
his sister.
Queen Klizabeth ({ranted in 150S lands to
Sir Kdward Warner, Knight, in the M.mor of
(iettin!.;ham. county Kent : also ^' i\-
ley in the same county: he mar ih.
third daughter of Sir Thoma- ;.. ..
William Warner. Ksf|.. in tiie latter p.irt of
the reii,'!! of Kini; Ivlward, liecame |x»ses>ed
of .\orthwi>od .Manor, county Kent, and held
it until his death in 1504; then his son Hum-
phrey seized •>f if, and lie held it until 1513.
when he willed it to his mhi \\ illiani.
John U arner, of Fo»>t Cray. wa> sheriff i>f
county Kent in 1442. He reccivc<l the |>osi-
tion from his father John, who had received
it from the government in 1395.
Henry .\ Warner, capitalist ami real estate
dealer, who>e business caieer from Imyhood
has been passed iti New Haven, where he is
widely and favorably kni>wn as one of the
city's Icadiiij; business men and substantial
citizens, descen<ls from one of Connecticut's
earliest families.
( 1) John Warner, the first of the line on
this si.fe of the .\tlantic, ai the afre '<• t«. nt^
one \ears came from l-jiyland with
who sailed in the ship "Increisc" in
746
CONNECTICUT
1637 he performed service in the Pequot war.
He became one of the original proprietors of
Hartford in 1639. In 1649 he married (sec-
ond) Ann, daughter of Thomas Norton, of
Guilford. Mr. Warner became an original
proprietor and settler of the town of Farm-
ington, Connecticut ; he united with the church
there in 1657, and was made a freeman in
1664. In 1673 he went to Mattatuck (Water-
bury) to ascertain if it was a desirable place
to settle, and was a patentee of that place in
1674. It was his intention to move thither,
but he died in 1679, leaving a widow, Mar-
garet.
(IV) John (2) Warner, a descendant of the
John Warner mentioned above, was a captain
in the Connecticut state guards, and served
in Governor Waterburv's state brigade, assist-
ing in the defense of the seacoast in 1781.
The long hill between Plymouth and the town-
ship now known as Thomaston was for many
years called Warner Hill in his honor. From
him our subject is descended.
(V) John (3), son of John (2) Warner,
married and had a son Abijah. mentioned be-
low.
(VI) Abijah, son of John (3) Warner,
married Betsey, daughter of Jason Fenn.
(VII) Gains Fenn, son of Abijah Warner,
was born in 181 1, in that part of the town
of Plymouth known as Town Hill, in Litch-
field county, and was the youngest of three
children. He was but six years old when his
fatlier died, and until his marriage remained
at home with his mother. At the age of
twenty-one he wedded Harriet Jackson, of
Bethlehem, that county, and the young couple
settled in their own home. For about three
years Mr. Warner worked the farm, and then
moved to Waterville. His two daughters,
Helen and Harriet, were born during his resi-
dence in Plymouth ; his son, Henry A., in
Waterville, Connecticut. About the year 1847
he found his life work. He met a man who
was in the business of manufacturing malle-
able iron castings, and who so urged him to
enter this work that he finally decided to go
with him to Straitsville and investigate for
himself. He soon moved his family to that
place, and so well succeeded in the new ven-
ture that when the buildings were burned to
the ground he removed the works to New
Haven, many of the principal workmen going
with him. In this line he had the monopoly,
and his was the largest concern of the kind
in the country. Mr. Warner passed the re-
mainder of his life in that city, active alike
in commercial, religious and benevolent circles,
and widely known and beloved.
It was during Mr. Warner's residence in
Plymouth that the Congregational church in
that village was built, and he threw his superb
energies and strength into that enterprise. He
hauled much of the timber from the woods to
the mill, and from there to the church lot.
At "raising day"' all the town turned out to
help, and afterward all were served, as was
the custom of the time, to doughnuts, raised
cake and cider. When he removed to Straits-
ville, at that time a very small village, Mr.
Warner deplored the fact that no regular
church services were held there, and he very
soon made arrangements whereby theological
students from New Haven should preach in
the small chapel each Sunday for the sum of
ten dollars and their board. His house was
freely opened for their accommodation, and
very often the compensation was largely given
from his own pocket. As he grew in pros-
perity he was ever ready to respond to numer-
ous calls for benevolence, both public and
private, which were made upon him, notably
that of home and foreign missions, growing
.stronger each year of his life. Mr. Warner
was a man of few words, and while ever
friendly to those who were so fortunate as to
possess his love and confidence, he showed a
true and loyal heart, to be relied upon in any
extremity. In his family he was the faithful
husband, the kindest of fathers, and his house
was ever open to all his friends.
In the year i860 ]\Ir. Warner decided to
build a new residence, and purchased a fine
lot on Chapel street of about one and a half
acres, in the center of the city, opposite Yale
College, where he erected the substantial
house now occupied by the Union League
Club, in the rear of which is now the Hyper-
ion Theater, and on the western side Warner
Hall, an apartment building, erected and man-
aged by his son, Henry A. Warner. It is
characteristic of Mr. Warner that, when ques-
tioned by a member of the college faculty as
to his venture in laying out this acre or more
of ground, stocking it with fruit trees, foun-
tain, grapery and ornamental shrubs, lest he
should suffer invasion by mischievous boys of
the college, to reply: "I shall not molest them,
and I don't think they will ever trouble me,"
and they never did. After moving to his new
home he gave his best Christian efforts to the
welfare of the College Street Church, which
building joined his land on the eastern side,
and was an earnest helper and exemplary
member until his death, in October, 1870. He
died as he had lived, in full trust and faith in
his Saviour and God, since when, in 1837,
during a strong religious movement through-
out the entire country, he and his young wife
united \\-ith the clmrch in Plvmouth Center.
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j (\ 111) Henry A., si.ii .,i (j;iiii> l-'enn War-
I ner, was Ix.in .NIarcli lo, 184J, at Watcrville.
in tile town ot W aterlniry, ami wa> six years
■ Id when tlie family settled in Now Haven,
riiere. in tlic puhlic ami private >cIuk>1s, antl
I General Russell's and Hopkins jjrammar
liool. he received his education, anil was
|.repared for a business career. I'or many
\cars he was an iron inanuiacturer, continu-
inji his father's large concern, and he has since
dealt in pipe, in which line his elTorls have
met with deserved success. Returning east
after the Chicago tire. .Mr. Warner stn|>pcd
at .\kron. Ohio, and fomid a make of pipe
which had not been introduccil east, where
imported Scotch pipe ami a slip glaze pipe
from .New Jersey were in use. However,
they were soon superseded by the Ohio pipe,
which Mr. Warner introduced and sold
throughout -New England. For many years
he received royalty on all i)ipes mailc from
this clay and sold cast. He has also dealt
lensively in real estate, and is proprietor of
o Warner Hall .\partment Hotel, ^t No.
14 Chapel street. New Haven. .\t the time
the erection of this bniltling, which was
t Hrst six-story building erected in Connec-
iil. he gave it the name of "Warner Hall,"
lite imaware that there had been a "Warner
i ill " at the Manor of F^ikeUham. which was
^ anted to John Warner of "Warner Hall"
in Great Walthani. Englaml. Mr. Warner re-
sides at 61 J Whitney avenue, .New Haven,
• "nnnccticut.
Mr. Warner married Gertrude E. Morton.
I r. and Mrs. Warner's religious connections
are with the Plymouth Congregational Church
of New Haven, which was formerly the Col-
lege Street Churcii. of which he has been a
deacon. Mr. Warner's pulitical atVdiations arc
w ith the Repid)Iican jiarty : but w hile ever in-
terested in politics and public affairs, he has
kept aloof from party warfare, and has never
held pidilic office. He is a member of the
Union League. Voimg Men's Republican
Clui>. Sons of the .\mcrican Revolution.
Chamlier of Commerce. Country Club, and
was sergeant major of the .'>econd Company
Governor's Horse Guard. Mr. Warner has
two sisters living. Mrs. Helen L. Cowles.
widow of I.uman Cowles. anil Harriet W.
Mcrwin. wife of Thomas P. Mcrwin. all of
Now Haven.
I John Eaton, the first of the line
E.\TON here imdcr consiileration. is re-
corded as taking the freeman's
oath. May J5. irt^^i. Hi* wife. Abigail, ac-
companied by tw'i children, embarked for
\iu F'ngland in tb<' -l"i> "Elizabeth and
All
th.
.\1.
747
tbic tiiat
L-m.
t.d
.... 7t
his wiic Alice I!, uul recorded.
(Ill) Ih^ma-:. "ion of }nhn 121 and Mice
E;.t ,..„,
"T k.
^'•^> d.
where li. ,ri of his 1 !it.
He mail {.orn in 1 m
1748. tlfttcii d.i;, > .liter tile death tA hci Im,-.-
band. daughter oi .Nathaniel Gav.
(IV, - - ' ■■ ■ • :i.,
(Gay) I ,,.
necticut. 1, , ,i^
to the ncighlMiring town 01 > m
17^7. and lived therp flic iTen' us
life. He held 1 " ' „,
and for a tinu
urer. He mar; -,,,,.. .i.n.^.u., .., y .^^^.
tain John and Sarah Parry.
(V) .Abel, son of .Nathaniel and Esther
( Parry) Eaton, was liorn at WixidMock. Con-
necticut, 1734. the youngest of thirteen chil-
dren. He went to Concord. New York, in
I7'>|). and there served as deacon of the church
and captain of a military company. He later
removed to Greene comity. I'.etwccn 1776
and 1780 he was absent from h.mi- for a
considerable period, and it is i;it
he was then on service in tin yy
war. He married .Ann .\zuba lim ,, .1 k.'x-
bury. He died in Cairo. New York, in 1812.
(\'l) .Amos, son of .\bcl and \nii \/:l..i
(Hurd) Eaton, was born at Cli ■
bia county, New York, in I77'>.
New York, May f\ 1842. \\ lien i ■ :rti;i.n
years of age he was selected to deliver a
Fourth of July oration in his native town.
With his own hands he made the necessary
instruments for surveying, and siH.n l>egan
work as a surveyor of the neighboring farms.
He was a student at Williams College, from
which institution he graditaie<i in 1770. He
became a lawyer, bni bis career a^ vucii ter-
minated unfortunately, and m iSi; ! 1 ..: "icd
natural science as his pr n
became an interesting Ic' ■■ c«
being in : -id. and 111 iSiu Ik was
invited b DeWitt Clinton to lec-
ture bef.1i> ,.,,,,,..> I ^ of t'"- ' ■■ ' ■ !Ic
was afterward employed 11
\'an Rensselaer to make a g-
ricultural survey of the flistnci a.ljwiniiig the
Erie canal, and his report, published in 1824,
was one of the • ' ' ■ kind in
.\merica. Th< iicd hi
iS.>.) ibr m1„„ ;i as the
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy,
New York, and Mr. Eaton was made the
senior professor ; here he spent the remainder
of his life. He published many text books,
and kindled in the breasts of many young men
a love for science, which in time made their
names famous and immortal. Professor
Eaton was married four times. His second
wife. Sally, daughter of Eleazer and Try-
phena (Beebe) Cady, born at Canaan, New
York, 1780, died at New Haven, Connecticut,
July 13, 1810.
(VII) Brevet Major-General Amos B.
Eaton, son of Amos Eaton, was born in
Greene county. New York, in 1806. He
graduated from ^Vest Point in 1826, and was
at once assigned to garrison duty, serving in
the war with Mexico. At the breaking out
of the civil war he was made chief of the
commissary service, with headquarters at New
York City, and was also purchasing commis-
sary for the armies in the field. Millions of
money passed through his hands in the dis-
charge of the duties of the important posi-
tions assigned to him, and in the selection of
General Eaton the government was particu-
larly fortunate.
(VTII) Professor Daniel Cady Eaton, only
son of Brevet Major-General Amos B. Eaton,
was born at Fort Gratiot, Michigan Territory,
in 1834. XAHiile a student at Yale, where he
graduated in 1857, he was a zealous student
of botany, and the three years after gradua-
tion were spent in the Lawrence Scientific
School of Harvard University, where he re-
ceived the degree of Bachelor of Science in
i860. In 1864 he was elected to the newly
founded University professorship of botany
at Yale, which he held until his death. He
married, in 1866, Caroline, daughter of Tread-
well Ketcham, of New York City.
(IX) George Francis, second son of Pro-
fessor Daniel Cady and Caroline (Ketcham)
Eaton, was born in New Haven, Connecticut,
May 20, 1872. He graduated from Yale Col-
lege in 1894. and took up the study of oste-
ology and palaeontology with Professor
Marsh; he is now (1910) curator of the Os-
teological Collection in the Peabody Museum
of Yale University. He married, (October 24,
1899. Julia Henrietta, daughter of Thorvald
Frederick Hammer, of Branford, Connecticut.
Two sons. Frederick Selden, of the tenth gen-
eration, born July 15, 1900, and Richard Law-
rence, April 17, 1906.
(\ II) Daniel Cadv, son of Amos
EATON (q. v.) and Sally '(Cady) Eaton,
was born in the village of Cats-
kill, New York, June 17, 1805. .A.s soon as
possible he devoted himself to business. When
a very young man he went to New York and
found employment in the wholesale dry goods
establishment of Doughty & Robinson, of
Pearl street, where subsequently he was ad-
mitted to partnership. In 1845 he retired from
business and went to Evlrope. In 1847 he
again went to Europe, accompanied by his
family. From 1849 until 1852 he was in New
York devoting himself to finance and politics.
In 1852 he and John A. Dix were the leaders
of the conservative side of the New York City
Democracy. Under President Pierce Mr. Dix
expected to be appointed Minister to France,
and Mr. Eaton expected to be made Collector
of the Port. Disappointed in their expecta-
tions, they went abroad with their families
and remained away until the death of Mr.
Eaton in Paris, June 11, 1855, when the two
families returned to America. Mr. Eaton was
fond of France, devoted to the fine arts, and
instilled his tastes into, his son. In addition
to his son he left a daughter, who became the
wife of George S. Brown, of Baltimore, of
the banking house of Brown Bros. & Com-
pany. The wife of Mr. Eaton was a grand-
daughter of General James Livingston, of the
well-known family and of revolutionary fame.
(VIII) Daniel Cady (2), son of Daniel
Cady (i) Eaton, was born at Johnstown, New
York, June 16, 1837. He was at school in
Paris, France, when ten years of age, and
upon his return to the United States attended
the Grammar School of Columbia College
until 1852, when he again went abroad and
pursued studies in Geneva, Gottingen, Rome
and Paris until the death of his father in
Paris, June, 1855. He entered Yale College
in 1856 and was graduated in i860 with the
degree of B.A. He entered the Columbia
College Law School in i860: was admitted to
the bar in Albany, New York, in 1861, a
year ahead of his class, hoping for and ex-
pecting the position of judge advocate on the
staff of General John A. Dix. .Disappointed
in this, he joined the Seventh Regiment New
York State Militia, and was with it during its
second term of service under the United
States. After the return of the regiment from
Baltimore he v^'as drill master of the One
Hundred and Fifty-fifth New York \'olun-
teers expecting to be appointed its major. He
was, however, seized with a fever, contracted
during his service, and for over six months
was an invalid. During the New York City
draft riots he served on the staff of General
Miller. After the riots were over he was
gazetted colonel of a regiment that was never
raised. His military career was gloriously
ended by hi:; name appearing in the list of the
UJN.NELTICUT
l;i-i ■ii.ni I'll I |>-. a draft wliich. unfor-
iiinatcly tor liim. \va> not tnlorccd. In iK/jj
he- received from \'alc the ileyrcc of M.A.
After a residence of several years aliruad he
was, in iH'xj, appointed to the newly «rstab-
lishcd jjrofessorslii]) of the History and triti-
cisrn of Art in \'ale Collej^e. He reNij^iuil lii-
professorsliip in iHjt) hecause the cor|»pralioii
would not Ljivc hin) a iKisition outside oi the
art school, where his |)osition was sulxirdinate
and disa;,'reeai)le and where his activities were
of very little, if any, henefit to the collcRC.
I'roni 1S7S until ahout HKX5 his time was
pa>se<l in stndyiiii,' the history of the tine arts
abroad and in writin;,' and lectnrinj; on the
subject at home. When lladley was elected
president of Yale L'niversity he was otTerccl
ami accepted a university professorshi]). This
he held until retired for aj^e in 1907 with the
title of I'jneritus. Apart fronj pamphlets,
magazine and newspaper articles on various
subjects, he is the author of a "llanilbook of
Greek and Koman Scilpture," Hoston, James
K. Os},'ood & Company, 1884, and of "A
Handbook of .Modern French I'aintinj;,"
Dodd, Mead & L'omj)any. New N'ork, I'jcx^.
He is now ( tgiot at work on a "Handbook
of I-'rench Sculpture", which he hopes to
puMi-^h next year.
This family sccnis to have been
IIAKI-.K connected with various important
afTairs of the colony from its
lirst settlement. September 3, it/>4, Claes
Jaiisen I 'acker was one of the signers of a
petition to Ciovernor Stiiyvesant to surrender
New .\msterdam to the ICuRlish on account of
the defenceless condition of the town. Octo-
ber 21. 1(1(14. amonij those who took the oath
of allej^iance to the l-"n,uli~h in New ^'ork
City were: Claes Jansen liacker, llendrick
Janzen Hacker. Reinier Willemzen Hacker,
and Jacob Macker. husband of Marijrict Stiiy-
vesant. Decemlier 24. ifi/.V I'laes Jansen
Backer and another are on rccortl in connec-
tion with the sale of a house. March t",
l(>~4. llendrick Willemse I'acker was worth
two thousand guilders, and Reinier 1 '.acker
was worth five thousand guilders. Jacoli
Backer and Claes Jansen i'acker were not
assessed at this time, and it is probable that
they had already left the city for New Jer-
sey. June 15, i'>74. llendrick ile ISacker and
:i number of others petitioned that each of
them may be ;,Mven anri granted a piece of
ground on Stalen Island at the mouth of the
Kill von Kull, and they were deferred in the
matter of this reip'est to the time of the dis-
pos.il of the lands. In \])ril, \h~fi, .Margriet
Stt'vvcsanf Hackir obtained a patent for two
lull
Kb.
7«.
ami
nan '
wa
lb. N
came, is
and anioiu '■-■-
we fimi the n
Backer or llaki
chasers in Bergm. m
ifi6S. Littell. in his , s
an account of '■- '
tion. Thomas n
England and s, : ,,1
from thence remove
now I'nion. New J»-t .f
Thomas Baker, the iinnn-rani m
L^nion to the I'assaic valley, t f
New Providence, and there 1.
tracts of land. He married H
son, on the Rahw.iy river. an<l
Thomas : William, married Racial \ rtUiitiiic .
Daniel: Nathan; Sarah: I-'lizal-eth. Henry
Baker, who was not t. ' • ' \n
to Thomas Maker. tn
Wesifield Church t-'u r-
ried I'hebe Hedges, of !.• ul
children: naniel. Junr ^ 1 ,r-
ried lemima W iiail'..iii. Jtitiiiiah;
Jonathan: I'Ik The descendants
of l)otb are Irai . 1 ■> ! 1. 11.
(I) C'laes Jaiis/eri Kiist nnrric<l (first)
Aechtje Comelis : ( second I July 21. i'«47.
acconling to the record in the Hutch Re-
formed t'hurch of New N'orW t'iiv, (Icprtjc
Nanniiu'ks, wi "
( II ) Claes (1 . n
and (K-ertjc ' )
Kusf. was l>aptize<! d
Church of New ^'oi ■ d
June «. irif>8.
(HI) Ilendricus, .s tic Itecker.
was born ' " " ^'
( I\ ) ' I of Hendricus dc Back-
er, was li :; ^;aten Island, (Jctoltcr 3i.
1707.
(\"> Wiltinm Bnt-er. «"n of Ntmlitit* de
Ba.' ■ ■ ,rd
at 'It
to 1 i , .-•.th
his son John .M.. and died there. He married
F-lizabeth Fose.
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CONNECTICUT
(VI) John AL, son of William and Eliza-
beth (Fose) Baker, was born October 2, 1788,
baptized in the Tappan Dutch Reformed
Church, November 6, 1788, died in 1863. He
ran away from his home during his youth, but
must later have become reconciled to his par-
ents, for they came to live with him. He had
a nephew, Benjamin, living at Honeoye Falls,
New York, who has children : Claude, Ed-
ward, Frank and others. John M. Baker was
a carpenter and cabinetmaker. He married
Hetty Meddaugh, of La Grange, Dutchess
county, New York, born in 1778. died in
1853, and their gravestones may be seen in
the Freedom Plains church3'ard. Children :
I. Aaron, married (first) ; (second)
Adaline Meddaugh ; children of first mar-
riage : Melissa. John Peter, Edwin ; children
of second marriage : Mary Ann, Amelia and
Eugenia. 2. Levi, see forward.
(VII) Levi, youngest child of John M. and
Hetty (Meddaugh) Baker, was born at La
Grange, Dutcbess county, New York, Au-
gust 6. 1819, died in Kingston, New York,
September 6, 1898. He received a common
school education, and learned the trade of a
merchant tailor in Poughkeepsie. New York,
which he followed for many years, employing
a number of journeymen. After his retire-
ment from business he removed to Kingston,
New York, where the last twelve years of
bis life were spent. He was an earnest worker
in the cause of temperance, was a charter
member of the Dutch Reformed church of
Poughkeepsie, also an elder. He married
(first) August 23, 1841, Mary Ann Jewell,
born April 30, 1824, died February i, 1843.
He married (second) May 5, 1845, Emily
Brown, of Rhinebeck, New York, born Jan-
uary II, 1825, now living in Kingston, New
York, daughter of Sebastian and Eliza (Bard)
Brown, and a great-granddaughter of Major
John Pawley, the famous officer of the colon-
ial and revolutionary wars. Children, all of
second marriage: i. Francis Marion, born
March 24. 1848: lives at Providence, Rhode
Island, and is a commercial traveler ; married
(first) Kate Emighie and had children :
Henry N.. Amy, Bertram Francis : married
(second) Abby Perry Dennis, of Bristol,
Rhode Island. 2. DcWitt Levi, January 31,
1851, died ATarch 26, 1854. 3. Mary Helen,
December 2, 1854 ; lives in Kingston. New
York. 4. Willard, see forward. 5. Carrie,
July 18, 1862 : married Edgar Eltinge Keator,
who died June 18, 1894: has one son. Harold
Eltinge.
(VIII) Willard, third son of Levi and
Emily (Brown) Baker, was born in Pough-
keepsie, New York, October 27. 1858. He
acquired his education in the public and high
schools of his native town, commenced the
study of law in the office of Hughes & Baker,
at Amenia, New York, and was admitted to
the bar of Litchfield county, Connecticut, in
1880. In 1883 he was admitted to the bar in
New York. At first he established himself in
the practice of his profession at i\.menia. and
later at Sharon, Connecticut, where he has had
an office since that time, 1886. He has not
confined his activities to the legal profession,
but has been a leading spirit in a number of
business enterprises, as well as taking a fore-
most interest in the public welfare of the com-
munity. He was one of the organizers, and
until recently a director, of the Sharon Water
Company ; an organizer and director of the
Sharon Electric Light Company and of the
Sharon Telephone Company. For a number
of years he served as an officer of the first
district, and is a trustee of the Sharon Library
Association. As clerk of the probate court
of his district he has done excellent service
for many years. He was appointed post-
master of the town in 1897, ^nd since that
time he has filled that office v.'ith credit to
himself and to the satisfaction of all who have
its welfare at heart. He is active in the af-
fairs of the First Congregational Church and
since 1895 has been a memb^ of the stand-
ing committee of the society. He is a mem-
ber of the local council of the Royal Arcanum.
Mr. Baker married. April 30, 1887, Nellie A.
Hitchcock, of Unionville, Connecticut, daugh-
ter of Elmer and Mary (Gorman) Hitchcock.
Children : Mildred Hitchcock, born January
3, 1895 ; Marion Brown, August 18, 1900.
The surname Noble is of great
NOBLE antiquity in England. It "first
appears in the reign of Richard
1., and has been common since then. Several
noted merchants of the name lived in Edin-
burgh. Various families of the name bore
arms and the principal seats of the family
were in Cornwall. Belson and Bishop's Ten-
tor, county Devon, and Marming. near Maid-
stone, county Kent. The latter family bore
these arms: Or two lions passant guard, in
pale azure between as many flaunches of the
last ; over all a fesse gules charged with three
bezants. Crest : A lion passant azure.
(I) Thomas Noble, the immigrant ances-
tor, was born as early as 1632, in England,
and died in Westfield, Massacliusetts, Feb-
ruarv 20. 1704, aged at least seventy-two
years. He was an early settler at Spring-
field. Massachusetts, coming thither from
Boston, where he was an inhabitant, January
5, 1653. He had an account at the store of
CONNECTICUT
J ;:ii I'yiichon in Si)iini,'tield, and the account
book shows tliat he visited England soon af-
ter removing from Boston. In i<V)4 lie witli
others was given leave to set up a saw mill
on a "brook below Ensign Cooper's farmc
over Agawam River." lie was an assessor
of the town. lie had lands granted to iiim
in W'estticld, in July, l666, on cf>nditiiin of
settlement, and the grant was renewed Jan-
uary 9, 1668. He settled there as early as
January 21. \6(^. and was on a committee
to decide the boundary lines. His homestead
was al)Out two miles and a half fmm the
present center of the town. lie served as
constable, and took the oath of allegiance,
January 23, 1678. He joined the Westtield
Churcli, February 20, 1681, and was adnutted
a freeman, October 12. \(&i. Me was fined
five shillings at one time for traveling on a*
fast day. His home was exposeil to Indian
attacks during King rhiliji's war. kev. Dr.
Davis says "One night during family pray-
ers, (iray Lock (an olil Indian), ste])ped up
and pulled the string and let the d(K)r swing
open, and as soon as all was cpiiet. he would
pull the string again. Mr. Noble was per-
suaded l>y his friends to move into lown. (.iray
Lock said he iiad several opportunities of kill-
ing most of his children at a shot, but did not
want scalps as much as captives." On March
2. \(r^\, Thomas Noble was chosen county
surveyor. He was a tailor by trade. His will
was dated May 11. 1697, •'"^ proved Sep-
tember 5, 1704. He marrieil, November i,
1660. H;mnah. born in SpringfieM. .-Vugust 17.
1643. only daughter of William and Joanna
(Scant I \\'arriner. .She joined the W'estfield
church. November 11, \(iki. She married
(seconil), January 24. 1705. Deacon Medad
Pomeroy, of Northampton. Children : John,
born March 6, i6<i2: Hannah, born February
24, ifi64: Thomas, born January 14, 1666;
Matthew; Mark, mentioned below; Elizabeth,
born February 9, 1673: Luke, born July 15,
1675: |.nne<. born October 1. i'>77: .Mary,
born June 20, 1(180: Rebecca, born January
4. 1683.
(in Mark, son of Thomas Noble, was born
in W'estfield. aliout if 170, and died there, .April
\(\ 1741. He was a farmer and was chosen,
in 1718. surveyor for the town and county
roads; in 1720 constable: and in 1722. to seat
the meeting. In 1725 he was tythingman. On
.•\pril 8, 1741, a few days before his death, he
executeil a deed giving his property to his
sotis John and Noah Noble. He married, in
1698, Mary or Mercy Marshall, who died
May T2. 1733, daughter of Samuel and Re-
becca (Newberry) Marshall, of Northamp-
ton. She joined the W'estfield church. De-
cemlier 23. .,■■.% • i'l'"^-- ' ■•■ ^^ •
fiebl: Noah, born M.i
ber 7, 1703; Mary, \>
.Vbigail, born July 7, 1704, J..li», l»ufh De-
cember 21, 1706; Miriam, born Januar>- 4,
1710; Noah, bom May 23. 1713. mentioned
below.
(Ill) Noah, son of Mark Noble, was t>om
in W'estfield, May 23, 1713. He dic<I there
alxiut 1781, aged ntw^nt irtv rir^^t He
joined the W'e>-i!
ing become a ."^^
uary 3, 17- ' 1
the same i
.Voble, all.
uary 17, 1737, Sarah liarber, 01
Massachusetts. She wri<; K.rn. i
cembcr 4.1
(Smith) I
f'>. 1707. aL,^ . . .^.,.
l>orn December 19, 1737:
1730. mcntiiiiied below; M.
1741; Zenas, November 30. i74.<. i
December 18. 1745; Joel. I"ebrii;iry _••,
.Sarah, June 30, 1750; I"
(I\') Gad, son of ,, was born
in W'estfield. .August j. . , li tlie<| there
.March 9. 1823. He was among the ilrnfted
men who during the .American n-vi^l-itinn
went. September, 1776. to New '. •
months. He resided alxmt nne •
W'estfield Centre, nn the ri ' •
field. He was a farmer, ,i'
ern. He married, March ^ , <•.
who was born .May l. 1744, daiii;bltr «>i Sam-
uel and Catherine (Fowler^ Noble, of West-
field. She dic<l January 23. 1810. Children:
Lucy. b<irn .April 29. i/rtiS; Catherine, June
2, 17^19 : Gad. June 20. 1771; Enoch, March
5- ^77}>- inentione<l below ; Naomi. July 31.
1775: Elijah. March 9, 1778: Elisha. Septem-
ber 15. 1780. died young; Elisha. March 8,
1782; Naomi, .August 31, 1784.
(\') Enoch. «on of Gad Noble, was horn
in W'estfield. March 5. 1773, and died in
Richmond, or W'illiston, \'emiont. Januarv
29. 1856. He resided in Bristol, Connecticut,
from 1795 through 1800; in Hartland, Con-
necticut, i8oo-i8<yi: in Richmond. \'ermont,
1806-56. He married. Novemlier 18. 1795.
Caroline Matilda, who was lxirn July 17.
1771. daughter of lolnnol Seth .'^mith, of
New Hartford. Connecticut. She dicil \ii-
gust 8, 1849. He was a man of untir-
dustry, both as a farmer and a bl.-»i ;
He brought up his c' ' '
pressing on their mi-
and economy. He u.: ^
eminently social in his habits, an
tioned integrity. Never tied to ,
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variably voted for the candidate, in his opin-
ion, best fitted for the place, without regard
to his political sentiments. He was one of
the first volunteers in the war of 1812. He
was in the battle of Plattsburg, and performed
service at Sackett's Harbor, for which he re-
ceived a pension. The story is told of him
that when on his way to Plattsburg, some one
asked of him : "How long do you intend to
stay?" "Stay," was his answer, "I shall stay
as long as a Briton remains to invade our
soil !"' Following the faith of his parents, at
the age of twelve years he united with the
Baptist church, but subsequently embraced
the doctrine of universal salvation. Children :
Amureth Smith, born March 3, 1800, men-
tioned below ; Warham, September 28, 1802 ;
Amelia, August 3. 1805 ; Alonzo, June 3,
1805: Caroline Matilda, December i, 181 1;
Maria, April 7, 1817.
(VI) Amureth Smith, son of Enoch Noble,
was born in Bristol, March 3, 1800. He mar-
ried (first) September 5, 1826, Ruth, who
was born in Williston, Vermont, January 24,
1808, daughter of Calvin and Ruth Murray.
She died in Richmond, February 2, 1827. He
married (second), October 28, 1829, Susan,
who was born in Hinesburgh, \'ermont, Feb-
ruary 18, 1808, daughter of Captain Daniel
and Susan ( McClave) Patrick. She died in
Chester, Vermont, March i, 1875. He re-
sided in Richmond until 1S37: in Hinesburgh,
1837-65; in Rutland, 1865-69; and he moved
to Chester in 1869. Children: Daniel Patrick,
born August 12, 1830: Ruth Maria, born June
20, 1832; Henry Smith, October 8, 1845,
mentioned below.
(VH) Dr. Henry Smith Noble, son of
Amureth Smith Noble, was born at Hines-
burg, Vermont, October 8, 1845, and attended
the public schools there. He prepared for
college in the Green Mountain Institute at
South Woodstock, Vermont, and entered
Tufts College, from which he was graduated
with the degree of A.B. in 1869. He studied
his profession in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of New York City and received
the degree of M.D. in the class of 1871. He
received the degree of LL.D. from Tufts
College in 1905. He was an interne at the
Hartford City Hospital for a time, and be-
gan to practice medicine at Chester, Vermont,
where he was located for seven years and a
half. He was then appointed assistant super-
intendent of the Hartford Retreat. Subse-
quently he became an assistant in the Aliclii-
gan State Asylum for the Insane at Kala-
mazoo, and was afterward assistant physician
of the Connecticut State Insane Asylum at
Middletown. Connecticut, serving there 1885-
98. He was then assistant superintendent of
the same institution from 1898 to 1901 and has
been superintendent since then. He is well
known throughout the country as an able and
successful alienist. He is a member of the Am-
erican Medical Association ; the Connecticut
Medical Society ; the Middlesex County Med-
ical Society ; the American Academv of Medi-
cine ; the American Medico-Phychological As-
sociation ; the New York Neurological So-
ciety ; Olive Branch Lodge, Free Masons, of
Chester, Vermont, of which he was formerly
senior warden. In religion he is a Universal-
i.st ; in politics a Republican.
He married, March 14, 187 1, Edna Jane,
born August 12, 1846, daughter of John and
Rose (Lowell) Chafifee. They have no chil-
Franklin Pierce Carter, founder
CARTER of the Carter & Hakes Ma-
chine Company, of -Winsted,
Connecticut, in which he holds a number of
important offices, is possessed of many ad-
mirable qualities which have drawn about him
in public as well as private life a large circle
of friends. While he has never sought public
office, but allowed the office to seek the man,
he has been honored in this respect a number
of times by his fellow citizens, and has filled
the offices to which he has been elected with
honor and ability. The Carters came original-
ly from England, and were among the earliest
settlers in this country. In his maternal line,
Mr. Carter traces his descent back to the
"Mayflower" Puritans.
( I ) Robert Carter, immigrant ancestor,
was born in England about 1675, died at Kil-
lingworth, Connecticut, November 6, 175 1.
He sailed from Bristol, England, for Amer-
ica, about 1700, was a shipwright by trade,
and had a business as a ship builder at what
is now Clinton, Connecticut. The name of
his wife has not been preserved. Children :
Benjamin, William, see forward, John, Sam-
uel, Mary, Nathaniel, Joseph.
(II) William, son of Robert Carter, immi-
grant, was born at Killingworth, Connecticut,
in 1702, and joined the church at that place
in 1725. Not long after he removed to Guil-
ford. Connecticut, and from thence to Wal-
lingford, in the same state. In the latter
town he married. May 3, 1733, Ann, daugh-
ter of Theophilus and Sarah (Street) Yale.
Children: 'Thaddeus, see forward: a daugh-
ter, born November 20, 1738; William, born
November 14, 1748 ; perhaps others.
fllD Thaddeus, son of William and Ann
(Yale) Carter,,was born at Wallingford, Con-
necticut, April 8, 1735. Fie served as a sol-
I
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753
dier during llic rLVolution, being in Cai)tain
Isaac LVxjk's company in 1775, and removed
to Litclificld, Connecticut, prior to I7'^3. lie
marric<i Lucy, daughter of lilislia Andrews,
granddaughter of Samuel Andrews, and great-
granddaughter of William Andrews, the immi-
grant ancestor. They iiati a number of chil-
dren.
(IV) Noah .^ndrews, son of Thaddeus
and Lucy (Andrews) Carter, was born at
Wallingford. Connecticut, in 1777, died in
Barkhamsted in 1830. lie was a verv voung
child wiicn his parents remove ' • ' '■ ■ ' '
and from thence he removed i
he was one of tlic pioneer p'
Methodist Episcopal church in Connecticut.
Prior to this time he liad been adopted by his
maternal uncle, tiic Rev. Noah Andrews, for
whom lie had been name<l. His <ecular oc-
ciipatiiin was that of fanning, and for many
years the visiting clergymen of the Metliodist
Episcopal denomination were entertained at
his home in r.ristol. In 1815 he removed
to r.arkhamsted, where he spent the remainder
of his life. He married, in 1798, Lydia Gay-
lord, of Plymouth. Connecticut, who \va> born
in 1778. Cliiblrcn: Cidoc. Ixjrn (^ctuln-r 23,
1799: Thaddeus Andrew*, March 29, 1802;
Polly, .\ugust 24, 1804 ; Evitts, December 24,
1806: Hiram, see forward; Joseph Henry,
November i, 181 2: Caroline, May 2^, 1S15;
Rispah ; Lydia.
(V) Hiram, son of Noah .Andrews and
L\dia (Gaylord) Carter, was l^^rn in Hris-
tol, Connecticut, January 29, 1810. died in
Barkhamsted, Connc-timf. rcbrnary 20,
1861. He V. when he
came tn Hat > nts. and
receiveil hi-- i , ... !;l schools
of the town. He carried the United States
mail on hor.scback for many years between
Lee, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecti-
cut. In 1834 he went to Ohio with the view
of settling in that state. ' ' ' ' time
returned ti> riarkhani<teil. ng,
with which occupation ]k iitil
his death. Stanch in his adherence to the
tenets of the Methodist denomination, he was
for many years an active mendicr of the
Methmiist church in Pleasant \"alley. a vil-
lage near New Harf' -^ ' ••- •'''• town of Bark-
hamsted. He mar; y 3. 1833, Eli-
za Nancy Taylor. .• 'arch 18, 1895.
at the home of her el-lot .-I'li. Edwin R.. in
New Hartford. ChiKlren: Edwin R.. lx>rn
in 1834: Mary. 1836; L\man, 1837; Hiram,
1830: Eliza Jane, 1842: John Wesley, 1S44;
George Taylor, 1S46: Philina Jcnettc, 1848:
William Carvosso. 1S49: Franklin Pierce, sec
forward ; Carrie. i8s6.
Th- 1-
Ion
Mai
wer.
son
Saraii t '
.Sarah ( '
Km
(VI
'i:
lor '
ter.
cr.'"
liani
Prill r
Thonuii .i!id i'.iiiciKc
married John Freeman. 1
ter . '■ ' '■ ' " - M.
ma I' :-
ter'
mar r
of 1
ried \\ illt.im i
(Vn Frankl I
Eliza N.TT'-' -1
Pleasant I,
Litchfieiri s,
1832. He wa.-> educated in i^
of hi<; native town until 1; <•
age t
yoit;
thill;, 1
and developed a di
LTpon the complcfi'Tt
to Hartford. 1
ujwn his bu<;iii.
termincd ti> le.uu i
with this end in vii
of the Pratt & Whii:
ford, and remaincl witii tii.ii >•
long pcrioil of thirty \c;\r< Dn
be perfected hiin^clt '■■ " '
trai'e, and ro>;i- fror
initil he had filled nn
and res|>onsibility, ,i-
conscientiiiusm-- •t
prcciatcd. In 1!'
ter severed hi* I
in ,\pril of ili.it ■' ■
necticiit. wlu-rc bo i. •
Machine Company, • il
manager, secretary and ire.tMiier. I'lie <\i cl-
ient fjuality of the output of this concern
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soon gained for it a widespread reputation, it
grew rapidly and consistently, and is in a most
flourishing condition. In spite of the mani-
fold demands made upon him by the duties
of his business, Mr. Carter found time to
devote to the public welfare of the communi-
ties in which lie resided and has always been
a staunch supporter of the principles of the
Republican party. In April, 1891, he was
elected councilman from the first ward of the
city of Hartford, and was re-elected for the
two succeeding years; in z\pril, 1894, he was
elected alderman, serving for two years ; and
in April, 1896, he was elected by the board
of aldermen and councilmen as a member of
the board of relief for a period of two years.
He is a member of the board of directors of
the Litchfield County Hospital of Winsted,
was for many years a member of the Pearl
Street Congregational Church of Hartford,
and is now a member of the First Congrega-
tional Church of Winsted. His fraternal as-
sociations are as follows : St. Andrews Lodge,
No. 64, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ;
Meriden Chapter, Royal Arch Masons : Ty-
rian Council No. 31, Royal and Select Mas-
ters ; all of Winsted ; also Charter Oak Lodge
No. 2, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Hartford, Connecticut, in which he is one
of the oldest past officers.
Mr. Carter married, October 17. 1876, Ella
Eliza Smith, of New Hartford, Connecticut,
and has children: i. Ethel, born March 2,
1880 ; married Clifford Wheeler, a traveling
salesman for the Strong Manufacturing Com-
pany, of Winsted. 2. Mills Taylor, born Au-
gust I, 1882, is with the Carter & Hakes
Machine Company.
Tames Stewart Osborne, of
OSBORNE the Osborne family which
has been prominent in Fair-
field, Connecticut, from the first settlement
of the town, was born there March 9, 1802.
He married Elizabeth Brown Guilford, born
at Charlestown, Massachusetts, now Boston,
November 10, 1806. Children: James, a
farmer at Hull's Farms, Connecticut ; Cap-
tain Samuel, a master mariner, lived at Brook-
lyn. New York ; Mary, married LeGrand
Sherwood : Oliver Stewart, mentioned below :
Sarah Jane, deceased.
(II) Oliver Stewart, son of James Stewart
Osborne, was born in Fairfield, in December,
1834, died in March, 1897. He enlisted in
1861 in Company M, First Connecticut Heavy
Artillery, and served three years in the civil
war. He was badly hurt during the war by
having his horse fall upon him. He was a
member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
He married, September 25, 1855, Ellen Lewis
Sturges, born at Fairfield, July 9, 1837 (see
Sturges VI). Children: born at New Haven :
Oliver Thomas, November 14, 1862, men-
tioned below ; Caroline, November 20, 1865,
died October 27, 1868.
(Ill) Dr. Oliver Thomas Osborne, son of
Oliver Stewart Osborne, was born at New
Haven, November 14, 1862. He attended
both private and public schools in New Haven,
and took the classical course at the New
Haven (Hillhouse) high school, from which
he was graduated, with honors, and with the
rank of third in a class of more than fifty, in
1882. He combined the study of medicine at
the Yale Medical School with the work at the
New Haven high school in the year 1882,
thus saving a year of time, and graduated
with the degree of M.D. in 1884. He then
went abroad and studied a year in the Medi-
cal University at Leipsic, Germany. He re-
turned to New Haven in the fall of 1885 and
began the practice of medicine, where he has
practiced his profession since that time, mak-
ing a specialty of internal medicine. After
teaching in the Yale Medical School as assist-
ant in the iledical Clinic, later as instructor
in Materia Medica and Therapeutics, he was
appointed assistant professor, and was made
full Professor of Materia Medica and Thera-
peutics in 1895. He received the degree of
A.M. from Yale College in 1899, and re-
ceived the extra title of Professor of Clinical
Medicine in 1906. Fie was the instigator of
the anti-tuberculosis movement in southern
Connecticut, and was chairman for two years
of the original committee for the furtherance
of this object. After the incorporation and
organization of the New Haven County Anti-
Tuberculosis Association he became the chair-
man of the medical board of the Gaylord
Farm Sanatorium for 'the treatment of in-
cipient tuberculosis, which position he has
held since its inauguration in 1905. He is a
director of the New Haven County Anti-
Tuberculosis Association ; director of the Elm
City Private Hospital Corporation : member
of the council of the American Therapeutic
Society : president of the New Haven Medical
Association ; vice-president of the Lhiited
States Pharmacopoeia] Convention for the
term of 1910 to 1920; member of the Commit-
tee on Revision of the 1910 Pharmacopoeia:
chief of the Medical Clinic of the New Haven
Dispensary ; director of the National First
Aid Association of America. He is a mem-
ber of the New Haven County .Medical So-
ciety : The Connecticut Medical Society ;
American Medical .'\ssociation ; American
Therapeutic Society ; National Association for
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755
the Stiuly ami rrcventiun of Tulx-TCiilosis ;
Connecticut Society of Social llyKi«-*ne; Con-
necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, mem-
ber of the New Haven Chaml)er of Com-
merce, lie has been editor since July, 1907,
of tile therapeutic department of the Journal
of the .hncriidn Miuliinl .Isstuuilioii, a week-
ly journal with a circulation of over 53,000.
He is ex-president of the Hillhouse High
School Alumni .Association, of the .Xmcrican
Therai)cutic Society, of the New Haven
County Medical Society, of the N'ale Medical
Alumni Association. Rx-chairman of the
Ther.i])eutic Section of the .\nierican Medical
Associati'ii. and <<i the Committee on Creden-
tials and Arranpcments of the United States
Pharmaco]>ieial Lnnvcntion of iqio. Was an
accredited delei^ate to the liUernatii>nal Me<l-
ical Conijress at lludapest, |i/k">, an<l read a
paper by invitation in the me<Hcal section of
tliat congress. He is the author of a Ixwk
on "Introduction to Materia Medica anri Pre-
scription Writint;" : of a book on "Therapeu-
tics" : of a thirteen-page article on Acrome}ialy
and a short article on Fever in Muck's "Refer-
ence HandliiHik of the Meilical Sciences": of
the section on ( )rijan< "therapy in Cohen's "Sys-
tem of Physiologic Theraiieutics" : and of
more than fifty original articles published in
various magazine> and journals. He is a Ma-
son, a memlier of Hiram Lodge, Xo. i. New
Haven; member of the (iraduates' Club, and
of the I'nion League llub. New Haven. In
politics a Republican : religious denomination
Episcopalian.
Dr. (Osborne married. .\])ril 18. i88«. .Mary
Woodwanl Tyler, of l'a>t Haven. Connecti-
cut, born (Xtober, 18^15. daughter of .\mmi
and Harriet Tyler. Children: Marguerite
Nichols. Iiorn January 23, i8S<^: dertrude
Stewart. June '28, 1890! died July 21. 1890.
Dr. Osborne resides at 232 York street. Xew
Haven.
(The Sturpcs Line).
(I) John Sturges was b<irn in Kngland in
1623, and came to Fairfield, Connecticut, in
1660, in his thirty-seventh year. His name is
often spelled Sturgc and Sturgee. He Iwught
Richarij Fowles' homestead and various other
property from time to time until be became
one of the large property holders there. He
was admitte<l a freeman. May 14, i<V)<>, and
was a selectman the same year. His will,
dated March 4, i(*)~. bequeathed to his son
Jonathan the homestead, his sword and vari-
ous parcels of land: to Joseph bis fowling
piece, long gun and land: to John his little
gun: to neb<->rah. wife of James Reilfield,
several lots of land and bis negro woman
Jenny: to his grandson Christopher; son-in-
law, Richard Strattun. .md
daughter Sarah; to •!..
Simon Couch, l»is n-
maindcr of his n
his daughters I
M.h.l. In I,
l>\\. Clid.Uci).
below ; John, m
lu-n i.iiiii- Ki'iiui'i. .-~.ir.iu,
Stratlon ; .\bigail, married
(H)Jo
in if>52, <ii. '
Sarah, daughter ui J'j-l|)1i Ikt; -. lie mar-
ried (second) Mary . His will men-
tions bis •■■•■■ ^' -^ ' '■ '■' ' '-.T
Lines. .\1 !
others. <
topher : JoMpb; U.tud. 1
with the three first nientioi
Solomon, iKirn .May 15, i<"j>. ^.1:..
10. i<')'K>-i7oo: Fstber. .March 2. 1;
.•\bigail, June 14, 1702; Jane, March i-, ., .,
04; Dclxirah, June i, 1708; Benjamin, men-
tioned below.
(Ill) Benjamin, son of Joseph S'
was l)orn at Fairfield, February 3, 17 •
in 1739. He married Thankful \\'ar<l. » ui..,
Seth, mentioned below; jjrobably others.
( 1\ ) Seth. son of P.enjamin .^turges. was
Iwrn at Fairfield. .April 28, 1733. died March
20. 181 1. He was a carpenter by tra«le, hv-
ing at Fairfield. He married, February 5,
1761. Mary, born Scptcml)er 11, 1738. died
.Vovember 0. 1800. daughter of Peter liurr
(see P.urr 1\). Children, Iwrn at Fairfield:
Benjamin. March ii, 1762, <lied .August 11,
1832. married Thankful Harrow: Ward. No-
vember 27, I7^>3. died -April i, 1812, married
Rachel lloyt : Fimicc, .August 4, i7')3. dic<l
February 21, i83(>. married .Abraham Cooper
Woodhull; Seth, .August 27, 1767, mentioned
below: P.arlow, .August 28. 17^19. cjicd 1819.
married Eunice Osljorne ; .Aaron Burr, July
iT). 1771. died Xovcmlwr 8, 1834. married
Sclina Hill Wakcman : Cicrshom. June i. 1773,
died March 17. 1833. marrie.l Kliz.nl)eth
Davis: Ezra, I'ebruary 20. 1773. did .No-
vember 13, 1840. married Lydia Ciill>crt : Jo-
seph, .April 27. 1777, died .April 15. 1855,
married Sarah Burr: Jeremiah, .April 30.
1770. died December 12, 1843. marrietl Maria
Sbelton: Peter, January 10. 1782, died 1844.
married Xancy .
(\) .Seth (2). son of Seth (i) Sturgc*.
was born at Fairfield. .August 27. 1767. died
March 20. 1811. He was a carpenter by
trade, and lived at Fairfield. He married, De-
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cember ii, 1791, Grissell Gould, who died
February 28, 1832, daughter of Abel Gould
(see Gould IV). Children, born at Fairfield:
Ellen, August 31, 1792, died September 13,
1868, married (first) Jonathan Lewis, (sec-
ond) Edward Bennett; John Gould, July 5,
1794, died August 7, 1864, married Lucinda
Rust, Tamar Perry and Frances Vandeburgh,
settled in Poughkeepsie, New York ; Judson,
March 31, 1796, died November, 1868"; Mary
Burr, April 11, 1799, d'ed May 13, 1822,
married Edward Bennett ; Jonathan, February
13, 1801, died January 24, 1875, married
Sarah FIull and Laura Wilson; Racilla. Feb-
ruary I, 1803, died November 29, 1823, mar-
ried James Rust; Samuel Squire, January 23,
1805, died February 25, 1848, married Lydia
Hoyt; Seth Morehouse, May 19, 1808, mar-
ried Mary Young; Peter, mentioned below.
(VI) Peter, son of Seth (2) Sturges, was
born June 22, 1810, died April 18. 1853. He
lived at Southport, Connecticut. He married,
August 30, 1833, Harriet C. Van Vreden-
burgh, who died November 10, 1852, killed in
a railroad accident at Southport. Children:
William D., born June 16, 1835, died April
13. 1878, married, February 29, i860, Corne-
lia Lockwood, who died March 3, 1908, lived
in San Francisco; Ellen Lewis, July 9, 1837,
married, September 25, 1855, Oliver S. Os-
borne (see Osborne II) ; Maria B., June 14,
1840, married, December 16. 1869, Henry T.
Hawley; Austin, May 26, 1842, married, 'Oc-
tober 12, 1869, Emma A. Bennett, born March
31, 1847; Jane S., March 19, 1846, died May,
1872, married, October 7, 1869, Rev. Welling-
ton S. Skinner; Benjamin, December i, 1849,
married, September 28, 1869, Maggie Crombie.
(The Burr Line).
(I) Jehue Burre or Burr was born in Eng-
land of German descent. He came over it is
supposed, in the fleet with Governor Win-
throp to New England and was in Boston in
1630. On October 19th of that year he ap-
plied to the general court of Massachuset-ts
for the rights of a freeman, and was admitted
May 18, 163 1. In 1633 he was one of a
committee to oversee building a bridge over
Muddy and Stone rivers, between Boston and
Roxbury. In 1635 his name and that of his
wife are mentioned as among tine church
members of Roxbury. Massachusetts. He was
one of the pioneers of Springfield or Agawam,
and with William Pyncheon. William' Smith
and six other young men "of good spirits &
sound bodies" founded that town in 1636.
On February 9, 1637, he was appointed by
the general court of Connecticut to collect
taxes at Agawam (at that time under the
jurisdiction of Connecticut) to assist in de-
fraying the expenses of the Pequot war. Sav-
age says that he removed to Fairfield in 1640,
and represented that town in 1641. He was
granted a house lot by the town, southwest
of the meeting-house green and the pond, af-
terwards called Edward's pond. He was dep-
uty to the general court in September, 1645,
also in 1646. He is believed to have been
the Jehue Burr who appealed a jury verdict
in 1 65 1, given in Stratford, to the general
court at Hartford in the same year; was a
grand juror in 1660, a commissioner of the
United Colonies in 1664; and died before
1670. It is uncertain who his wife was. It
is possible that she was a sister of Sergeant
Nehemiah Olmstead, in a record of whose
lands is mentioned the fact that said Olmstead
"before he died, did purchase land of his
brother-in-law Jehue Burre." It is more prob-
able, hovi'ever, that Olmstead married a
daughter of Jehue Burr. John Cable, Sr.,
who died in 1682, mentioned in his will his
kinsmen Jehu and John Burr, and the wife
of Jehue may have been a sister of John
Cable. Children : Jehue, mentioned below ;
John, Daniel, Nathaniel.
(II) Jehue (2), son of Jehue (i) Burr,
was born in England, it is supposed. He
married (first) Mary, daughter of Andrew
Ward. He married (second) Esther, widow
of Joseph Boosy, of Westchester. He be-
came one of the most influential men in the
town of Fairfield and also in the colony. He
was a captain in King Philip's war, a com-
missioner of the United Colonies, and held
offices of the highest trust and honor. He
lived in the family homestead, having pur-
chased in 1671 his brother John's interest in
the house and home lot of their father. In
1673 he purchased the next lot west of this.
His will was dated January 7, 1689, and
mentioned his wife Esther, his sons Daniel,
Peter and Samuel, daughters Esther. Eliza-
beth, Sarah, Joanna and Abigail (the last
four minors), also a granddaughter, Mary,
daughter of his deceased daughter, Mary
Wakeman. He died in 1692. Children:
Peter, graduated at Harvard College in 1690,
became a noted judge of the supreme court ;
Daniel, Samuel, Esther, Elizabeth, Sarah,
Joanna, Abigail.
(III) Daniel, son of Jehue (2) Burr, lived
in Greenfield, Aspetuck river, and was called
Daniel Burr, of Upper Meadow. December
19, 1687, he was given by his father twelve
acres of land at the Upper Meadow, with a
house and barn, on the east side of the Mill
river. He married (first) Hannah, daughter
of John Banks. He married (second) Mary
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'57
Slicrwuud. He married (third) Klizahcth
. Mis will was dated January i, 1719-
20. and nienlioiied his wife Eiizai)eth, sons
Jehu, Stephen. Peter, David, Moses and
Aaron, llic last three minors; dauyhlers Han-
nah, Mary, wife of Wheeler, Klizalieth,
wife of Hull; Jane and Ksthcr. The
inventory of his estate was dated July 14,
17J7. The estate was large, his eldest son
rtceivinp over one thousand f>ounds, and each
of his other children five hundred and forty-
five pounds. Children of first wife: Daniel,
Hannah. Children of second wife: Jehu,
Mary. Children of third wife: lUizaheth,
baptizcf! Septemher 20, itjr/i: Stephen, Octo-
ber 3, U<97'- Peter. July 23, 1699; Jane, .\pril
27, 1701 ; Esther, January 31, 1702-03; Na-
thaniel. June r, 1707: David, January i, 1709-
10; .M<>sc», .March 28, 1714; .\aron.
(I\'l Peter, son of Daniel Burr, was born
July 23, 1699, died in Auj^'ust. 1779. He re-
moved to ReddiuLj, Connecticut, and was
clerk of the Coiij^regational society and mod-
erator of the parish in 1734. His inventory,
dated .■\uj.,'nst 4. 1770. amourted t" two hun-
dred :in(l fifty-five jionnds, cij,dit shillin>:s. He
married Sarah . Children : Esther,
baptized N'ovemhcr 29. 1734; Sarah, bajjtized
February 21, 1736; Ezra, baptized January
2. ^7^7'> Mary, married Seth Sturges (see
Sturi^es l\'); Ednumd, hajitized September
28, 17^1.
(I\') Rev. Aaron Burr, son of Daniel Burr,
was born January 4. or March 4, 171 3-16,
died September 24, 1757. He graduated at
Yale College in 1735; studied for the minis-
try, and was first settled in Newark. \cw Jer-
sey, where he taught a nourishing school
until called to be president of Princeton Col-
lege. Upon settling in N'ewark, he soU] the
homestead at Upper Meadow to two cousins,
each named Joseph Bradley, one of whom
was the great-grandfather of Justice Joseph P.
Bradley, of the I'nited States supreme court.
He married Esther, daughter of K«'. Jona-
than Edwards, of New Haven. Children:
Sarah: Colonel .Aaron, third vice-president of
the United States.
(The Gould Line).
( n Xathau Gould, son of Nathan Gould,
of England, was the iiniiiigrant ancestor : he
came from St. Edmundsbury in South Brit-
ain, and was in Mil ford, Connecticut, as early
as 1647. in which year he purchased land
there. December 12. i^qg. he purchased
"George Huhharrl's dwelling-house & home-
lot at Millord. & all his upland & meadow",
and on the thirty-first of the next December
sold the same and removed to Fairfield. Here
.steads. His name is mentioned in the Con-
necticut Koval <'bart«T of u^'j; ]\r ."iej
March 4, i' , c
of the t...
necticut aiu. !i
character, sterling w
ness. His will dai 1,
mentioned his only -^
left most of his real
ters. ^ - ' "
gail
left t . , ..;y
divided among them. 1 he name 01 his nrst
wife is not knowtv He mrricH ftrrrin'!)
Martha. \\
field ; she
Nathan, 11,1,., v ,
Martha, married {fy
ond) Rev. John D . !,
grandson of Rev. John li.istiii-.it. iiic eccle-
siastical founder of New Haven ; by her sec-
ond husband she had seven children, and be-
came the ancestor of a talented and illustrious
lineage ; Abigail.
(II) Lieutenant-Governor Nathan (2)
Gould, son of Nathan ( 1 ) Gould, was deputy
governor of Connecticut alnrnt 1705. He died
October 31, 1723. aged sixtv vears. His
tombstone is still well pre?( ' •• •' ■ " --nl
Hill cemetery. His will w r
'3> ^7-3- '" '' 'ic gave i a
double portion of his estate ; lo >oii .^^amuel
a single share, including what he had already
given him ; to sons, Onesimus, David and Jo-
seph, a single portion of his estate : to son
Flezckiah fifty pounds, "over "■' .'-..e
what he had expcn<lcd n]x)n his ' ■ 1
daughter Abigail, one hundred 1 c
her marriage portion; to daughter M.iriha,
two hundred pounds. He married llnimah.
daughter of Colonel John Talr ' " t-
ford. and sister of the great ' i
Read Talcott. of Boston. Cl.v 1.
Samuel, mentioned IkIow ; Hezekiah, .Abigail.
Martha, Onesimus. David. ?r>«p|^h < The
order of birth of the al)Ove
(HI) Samuel, son of 1 r
Nathan (2) (;••'' I
honiestcad in ! ■;
occupied by tin ''.
Jolin Gould. P i>cr 11, 17U>. He
married Esther f Bradley.
Children : T' " '"-■);
-Abigail, '
1727. nu: ' r
18. 17.^0. probably died young; .Abraham, May
14. 1732
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(IV) Abel, son of Samuel Gould, was born
September 17, 1727, in Fairfield, died in 1789.
He married Ellen, daughter of Peter Burr.
Children and dates of baptism: John, born at
Fairfield and baptized October 5, 1755 ; Abel,
October 24, 1756: Talcott, June 17, 1759;
Ellen, August 2, 1761 ; Samuel, November 27,
1763; Isaac, February 23, 1766; Esther, May
8, 1768; Nathan, September 30, 1770; Gris-
sell, January 17, 1772, married Seth Sturges
Jr. (see Sturges V); Seth, May 14, i/JCS:
Hannah, June 17, 1775. "T
Deacon Samuel Chapin, "The
CHAPIN Puritan", was undoubtedly the
progenitor of all in this coun-
try of the name. There is a tradition that he
was of Welsh origin and another that he was
of Huguenot descent. The late President A.
L. Chapin, of Beloit College, after an ex-
haustive study of philological records abroad
was of the opinion that he was of French
Huguenot descent and probably fled with
other persecuted Huguenots to Holland,
where he associated with the English Puritans
who had also fled to Holland. The coat-of-
arms also points to French origin and the
name of Deacon Samuel Chapin's wife, which
was Cicely, or Cecile, is one found in early
French families.
Tradition says that he was born or lived in
Dartmouth, England, for a time, or at least
sailed from that port, about 1635, while there
is reason for the belief that he came over in
1631 or 1632 in the "Lyon," if he was not of
the original Pyncheon company. He was a
contemporary with Pyncheon in the settlement
of Roxbury, Massachusetts. He followed him
to Springfield and was known as "Pyncheon's
right-hand man" and one of the "founders of
Springfield". He was made a freeman, June
2, 1641, and elected to town office in 1642.
The Chapins of this country are all descended
from him, according to the best authorities.
He was a distinguished man in church and
state. He was deacon of the Springfield
church, elected in 1649, and employed to con-
duct services part of the time in 1656-57 when
there was no minister in town. He was ap-
pointed commissioner to determine small
causes, October 10, 1652, and his commission
was indefinitely extended in 1654. His wife,
Cicely , died February 8, 1682-83 ; he
died November 11, 1675. Of their children
five were born in Europe : Catherine, Sarah,
David, Henry and Josiah. Japhet was born
August 15, 1642, and Hannah, December 2,
1644. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was a de-
scendant of Catherine Chapin and President
\\'illiam FT. Taft is of the Josiah Chapin line.
(II) Japhet, son of Deacon Samuel Chapin,
was born in Springfield, October 15, 1642, died
at Chicopee, February 20, 171 2. He married
(first) Abilinah Coo'ley, July 22, 1664, who
died November 17, 1710; (second) Dorothy
Root, of Enfield, Connecticut, ]\Iay 31, 171 1.
Japhet Chapin settled first in Milford, Con-
necticut, where he was living November 16,
1669, when he took a deed from Captain John
Pyncheon and built his house at the upper end
of Chicopee street. He was in the fight at
Turners Falls in 1675 in King Philip's war in
which he was a volunteer, and his son Thomas
was grantee of a large tract given to the sol-
diers and their descendants by the general
court. He was, like his father, a man of great
piety, a bulwark of the Puritan faith, Chi!-,
dren : i. Samuel, born July 4, 1665. 2. Sarah,
March 16, 1668. 3. Thomas, May 10, 1671.
4. John, May 14, 1674. 5. Ebenezer, June 26,
1676, mentioned below. 6. Hannah, June 21,
1679. 7- Hannah, July 18, 1680: married,
December 31, 1703, John Sheldon, of Deer-
field ; was taken captive by the Indians and
kept in Canada two years. 8. David, No-
vember 16, 1682. 9. Jonathan, February 20,
1685, died in infancv. 10. Jonathan, Septem-
ber 2T„ 1688.
(III) Ebenezer, son of Japhet Chapin, was
born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, June 26,
1676, died in Enfield, Connecticut, December
13, 1772. He married, in December, 1702,
Ruth Janes, died January 18, 1736, daughter
of Abel Janes, of Northampton. They had
eleven sons, six of whom settled in Somers
Mount and had farms adjoining. On the
homestead at Enfield six generations have
lived, each Ebenezer by name, and five genera-
tions are buried in one lot in the Enfield, Con-
necticut, cemetery. Children, born at En-
field : Rachel, August 27, 1703 : Ebenezer,
September 23, 1705, mentioned below : Noah,
October 25, 1707: Seth, February 28, 1709;
Catherine, January 4, 171 1 ; Moses, August
24, 1712: Aaron, September 28, 1714: Elias,
October 22, 171 6; Reuben, September 3, 1718;
Charles, December 26, 1720: David, August
18, 1722; Elisha, April 18, 1725: Phineas,
June 26, 1726.
fIV) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (i)
Chapin, was born at Enfield, Connecticut, Sep-
tember 23, 1705, died there March i, 1751.
He received from his father, April 7, 1749,
three parcels of land in Somers. Connecticut,
and lived there for a time. He returned to
Enfield to live with and care for his father.
His estate was distributed August 5, 1755, his
wife Elizabeth being administrator. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Pease, died July 6, 1786, aged
seventv-four, daughter of Jonathan Pease,.
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759
Lhililrcti: i-.tiiiiezcT, mciitii .iu-.| lnhjw; Kli-
phalet, Elizabttli, Ruth, Tabitha, Eiicncr,
1 -ove.
(\) EbcneztT (3), son of Ebcnezcr (a)
* liapin, was born September 29, 1734, died
April 23. 1822. He enlisted. April 18, 1777,
in Captain Peter Tcnninun's company. Col-
onel Wooil's rijjimcnt. for service at Rhode
Island: discharj,'cd May 7, 1777. Enlisted
July 28. 1780. as serj,'eant in Captain I'liilip
Ammidon's company. Colonel Nathan Tyler's
regiment; niarclic<l on alarm to Rhode Island;
discharged Anj^ust 8. 1780. He resided on
the homestead at Enfield. He married. May
4. 1758, Mehitable llartlett. of Stafford, Con-
necticut, who died April 8, 181 1, ajjed seventy-
seven. His will was dated ( )ctober 20. 1797,
ml mentions wife Mehitable, children Tini-
:liy. Mehitable Collins. Mary Pease, Susan-
nah I'.ooth. Sarah IJarber. Tryphcna Terry,
Patty .iml Ebeiiezcr. (."hildren l)orn in En-
fiehl : Mehitable, June 7. 17(k-); Mary. April
28, 1762; Susannah. August 21, 1764; Ebe-
nczcr. June 15. i~(^); Sarah. March 31. I7'h8;
Tryjihena, April 30. 1770; Timothy, April 12,
1772, mentioned below: Joel. May 6. 1774;
^.imnel. May 19, 177'): Patty. April 23. 1780.
(\It Timothy, son of Ebenezer (3) Clia-
;in. was born at Enfield. April 12. 1772. died
June 30. 1838. He married (first) at Enfield.
November 2~. i8<k). I.ecty llarber. died July
12, 1804: (second) ( )ctober 7, i8o(>, Susannah
Terry. Ixirii March J^. 1778. died June n;.
185S. Children of first wife: Reuben, Tim-
othy Rarber. Ry second wife: Dan Terry,
born March 8. 1808; Henry. June 10. 1810;
I lilbert. November 18. 1812. Joel, August t6,
1X15. nientioncd below: Erancis. August 1,
I S20.
(\'I1) Joel, son of Timothy Gia|>iii. was
born in Enfield, .\ugust 16. 1815. <lied Au-
gust 27, 1832. He was brought up on his
father's farm, and received a go<id education
in the public schools and at Yale Colleije, al-
thdU'^h he liidnot grathiate. He was n fine
student and linguist, speaking several lan-
i;ii.iL'<~. He was licensed to preach, and al-
thon,;li he was never settled i»ver a |>astoratc
he often supplied pulpits. In early life he
taught school, and later established and main-
tained several Imarding schools for l)oys. He
was the author of a series of four grnnimars,
two of which were is-iued shortly before his
death. In (politics he wa* a Whig. He mar-
ried, at Enfichl. September i. 1841, Amelia,
born May i. 1818. die.l necemWr 22. 1882,
dani;hter of F.lisha ami I-ovisa (Cdeason)
Parsons, of Enfield. Her father was a farmer
and leading citizen in town and church. Chil-
dren. l)orn in Springfield. Massachusetts: i.
John Eliot. Ji!
Hcceml)cr 30.
j,„,.,. .1, ..:!...
of i
cnli
of LmI)|)vcIi«.uI \oiuitlcris, in j
slightlv vviiiiniird at Antielain
iff.. ...
Trn. !"?i ~f frrl Onpin,
villi ,
rcn. men!
(\ HI
was Iwm at ."
gust I. 1847. I lie
contmon ■ '• in
his lx>yli rs
old he li ■■ .1-
reer a.s clerk tit <t vvhulc9<tle oirpct establish-
ment. Soon after he tr^^k a potjfion as
clerk in a retail car ml
of his thir<l year in 1-
tion in the office of : ^. ig
concern in New York City, iie
spent seventeen years in the •».
He had some experience in tlu llc;\^|«a^JC^
and insurance business. Since i88<» he has
l)een in the Society for Savings of Hartford,
the largest Iwnk in New England (excepting
Boston) and for many years has been its
actuary. Mr. Giapin gained wide experi-
ence in the subject of investments and securi-
ties in pursuing an intricate and extended
litigation in behalf of an estate in the prose-
cution of a trustee for breach of trust. This
experience and the admirable training of a
varied business life added to a natural apti-
tude for the investn)ent department of the
Ixmking business. He has charge of the se-
curities ami accounts of the bank and repre-
sents various interests in the capacity df exec-
utor, conservator, trustee, elc.
Mr. Chapin is at present fleveloping a tract
of land and building for rental some hand-
son . ■ . s on Chapin place, Hartford.
Hi in local history and genealogy.
esp^>... ... ... .i:e Cliapin family. He was the
prime nwver in forming the Chapin Family
.\ssociation and has been its president from
the time of organization. His priric in the
family of Cliapin is great and amply justified
by the record of his ance-|or<. The name of
Chapin is clean and honorable, with a few
great names, and withal, faithful an<l hon-
orable even in the humble walks of life. He
is a member of the Hartford Historical So-
ciety, the Municipal .\rt Society, the Hart-
ford Club and the Get Together Clidi. He is
a Republican and a memln-r of the Republican
Club of Hartford, but has never sought or
held public office. He is a member of the Con-
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necticut Congregational Club and he and his
family belong to the Farmington Avenue Con-
gregational Church of Hartford.
He married (first) October 22, 1874, at
iVlansfield Center, Connecticut, Delia P., born
February 4, 1849, in New York City, died
January' 31, 1902, daughter of Herbert Bar-
rows and Cynthia Selima (Storrs) Campbell.
Her father was a New York merchant. She
had a sister Eugenie. Mr. Chapin married
(second) November 17, 1909, Lucy G. Stock.
His only child is Warren Storrs, born July 4,
1885, educated in the Hartford district and
high schools, graduating in the class of 1903
and from Amherst College with the degree of
A. B. in the class of 1907; now located in
Springfield, Massachusetts, where he is asso-
ciated with the Phelps Publishing Company in
their advertising department.
(II) Josiah Chapin, son of
CHAPIN Deacon Samuel Chapin (q. v.),
was born probably 1634. He
married (first) at the age of about twenty-
four years, Mary King, in Weymouth, No-
vember, 1658. She died May 30, 1676. He
married /second) at Ipswich, Lydia Brown,
September 20, 1676. She died October 11,
171 1. He married (third), June 22, 17 13,
Mehitable Metcalf. in Dedham. She died De-
cember 2, 1724. He died September 10, 1726,
at the advanced age of ninety-two years. He
settled in Weymouth and later in Braintree,
where he lived for more than twenty years,
and eleven of his fifteen children were born in
Braintree, three in Weymouth and one in
Mendon. He removed to Mendon in Worces-
ter county, Massachusetts, where the fifteenth
child was born in 1684. He was one of the
original grantees of the town of Mendon, and
one of its most prominent citizens in the early
days. Fie built the first sawmill in the town.
He held many public offices, and was chair-
man of the selectmen for twenty years. He
represented the town in the general court.
He left many descendants. The record of
his children and grandchildren in his own
handwriting has been preserved.
His children were :
I. Samuel, born November 11, 1659, Wey-
mouth ; drowned at sea, April 10, 1692. 2.
John, June 11, 1661, Braintree; died at sea,
1686. 3. Mary, August 27, 1662, Braintree.
4. Deborah, June 16, 1664, Braintree ; died
August 16, 1668. 5. Josiah, December 17,
1665, Braintree; slain in Lord Russell's fight.
May 20, 1693. 6. Shem, May 11, 1667,
Braintree; died June 6, 1667. 7. Seth, Au-
gust 4, 1668, mentioned below. 8. Joseph,
May 17, 1670. 9. Henry, February 15, 1671,
Braintree; died JNIarch 20, 1761. 10. Eph-
raim, December 18, 1673, Braintree. 11. De-
borah, February 12, 1675. 12. Lydia, Septem-
ber 29, 1677, Braintree. 13. Sarah, March 12,
1679, Braintree. 14. David, November 11,
1680, Braintree. 15. Hannah, November 11,
1684, Mendon.
(III) Captain Seth Chapin, son of Josiah
Chapin, was born August 4, 1668, at Brain-
tree. He married (first) j\lay Read. She
died without issue September 12, 1689. He
married (second) Bethia Thurston, March
25, 1691. She died after having fourteen
children, March 2, 1744. He died April,
1746. It appears from the old propri-
etary records that Captain Seth Chapin
had acquired a family home and domicile near
the Post Land bridge on Mill river some time
previous to May 26, 1700, for at that time
he had the following-described parcel of land
laid out to him : "Forty-five acres of the
fourth division laid out to Seth Chapin and in
possession of said Chapin, encompassing the
said Chapin's homestead and meadow on the
Mill River," etc. He went on adding parcel
after parcel to his estate till he became the
owner of several hundred acres in what is
now Milford, Massachusetts. In 171 3 he and
his wife made a deed of gift to their son, Seth
Jr., of sixty acres in what is now South Hope-
dale. They sold their homestead August 31,
1715, to Josiah Wood, formerly of Concord,
and removed to Mendon to live with or near
the venerable parents of Mr. Chapin. He
held many places of honor and trust in Men-
don. Children: i. Seth, July 2, 1692, Med-
field, mentioned below. 2. Bethia, February
16, 1693. 3. Josiah, March i, 1695-96. 4.
John, May 13, i6g8. 5. Mary, April 30, 1700.
6. Samuel, June 2, 1702. 7. Deborah, June
14, 1704. 8. Hopestill, November 27, 1705.
9. Joseph, March 6, 1707. 10. Abigail, June
10, 1710. II. Lydia, February 2, 1712. 12.
Benjamin, April 6, 1713. 13. Ebenezer, De-
cember 23, 1714. 14. Japheth, February 24,
1716; died April 15, 1717.
(IV) Seth Chapin, son of Captain Seth
Chapin, was born July 2, 1692, at Medfield,
and married, February 5, 1713, Abigail Adams,
aunt of John Adams, second president of the
United States. She died April 18, 1722. His
home place was in that part of Mendon now
Hopedale, where he was a large land holder.
He married (second) Elizabeth . Chil-
dren of first wife: i. Sarah, July 3, 1715, at
Mendon. 2. Mary, May 19, 1717. 3. Josiah,
January 19, 1719. 4. Abigail, May 27, 1721 ;
died April 28, 1722. Children of second wife:
5. Thomas, December 12, 1723! 6. Daniel,
October 10, 1727. 7. Rachel, January 22,
/yl Ciyv<^->
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761
1729. 8. Lydia, .\\>r\\ 20. 17.^-'. 9. Seth, De-
cember II, 1733. 10. Miosis, 1735.
(\') Lieutenant jnsiali Lliapin. son of Scth
Chapin, was born January 19, 1719, in Men-
tion, Massacluisetts, and died . He
married (first), 1744, Racliel Albcc : lie mar-
ried (>ccond), 1770, Mary Curljct. wiil^w.
Cliildren of first wife: i. Stejilicn. born De-
cember 27, 1745. 2. Abigail, May 13, 1747.
3. Adams, April 12, 1750. 4. Rhoila, Sep-
tember 17, 1752. 5. Lydia, Marcb 14. 1755.
6. Deborah, June 10. 1757. 7. Josiali, March
-'■• '759- 8. Simeon, November 4, 1761. 9.
Kacliel, May 7, I7<i4. 10. Levi, mentioned
below. II. Marvel, October 27, 1768.
(\I) Levi Chapin, son of Lieutenant Jo-
siah Chapin, was born May 5, 1766, in Men-
don, and died in \'iri;iiiia, September 18, 1.S33.
He m.'irried .\nna (litirch. born January 5,
1772. in i'.ristnl, Rlmde Lsland, died Xovem-
lier S. 1S46, \\ alpole. New Hanipsliire. Chil-
dren: I. Nathaniel, born November 21, 1792,
Orantje, .Massachusetts. 2. Levi, July 2. 1796,
\\o>tmoroland, .New Hampshire. 3. Hennon,
meiuioned below. 4. Jonathan, March 6, 1802,
Westmoreland, New Hami>sliire. 5. Philip,
.*^eptc■nlber 3, 1805, Westmoreland, New
Ilaiii]i>hire. 6. Rhoda .\nna. May 12, 1808,
Westminster, X'ermont.
(V'll) Hernion Chapin, son of Levi Chapin,
was born October 9, ijijf), in Westniorelantl,
New I lamp-hire, and died January 31. 18^16,
in Savannah, Georgia. He spent his boyhood
in New Hampshire, anil in early life traveled
down the Connecticut river, selling lumber
for Westmoreland and \\'al[X5le concerns.
Later he left home and went to Hartford,
where he learned the trade of plane making.
He then starte<l out to establish the business
for himself, and bought lanil in Hartford for
the purpose of building a shop. Owing to the
influence of certain people who objected to
having more factories in the town, he was
obliged to look elsewhere for a site, and finally
decided to locate in Pine Meadow, in the tow'u
of New Hartford. Here in 1826 he built a
factory which was the foundation of the pres-
ent large plant of The Chapin-Stephens Com-
pany. From 1826 until the time of his death
he continued the manufacturing of carpenter's
planes.
While on a vi<it to his «on George, in
the <;outh. he diefl. January 31. i8<Vi. He mar-
ried Catharine Merrill, bom J\ine 23, 1803. at
New Hartforrl. She <lied March 21, 1873, at
the home of her son George, who was then
living in Cleveland. Ohio. Children: i. El-
len. 2. John. 3. Edward Merrill. 4. Hernion
Terrill. 3. George Washington. f\ Philip
FiiL'cinv - W'.iItiT Fraiu-i< 8 Fr.inkliii. o.
Charles Francis. All an -..
Eugene.
(\nil FdA:.r.! Merrill C^i
nv
N.
u-pt IMulip
ii.f Her-
in
10.
.ir-
;-,d
chani;e<l t>i II
until the lati'
his inanufacturiiii^ -<-al
estate intere-t--, n>^ - a
Republican in iin-
jiaign. but i! re-
mained a stai',1
town olVices. He v
eral years and wa-
tivc to the legislature, lie uaa al.-u dticctur
of the State Prison, and served on the Re-
formatory P.oard. In religion he was an Epis-
cojialian. His father had built the first Epis-
cojial church in Pine Meadow.
He married. June i'>. i><5''>. Mary Ellen,
daughter of Hiram and fMive T'iVrr Slir was
born July 3. 1833, in .\( -a-
chusetts. and remove<l t^ ■ tit,
with her parents wli. " iiil-
dren : i. Hennon 17,
1866. New liar; I 1 he
Chapin-Stepli. June 22,
1898. Kate 1 ;.. Massa-
chusetts ; child. Flizalj(.lli .MliiiII L hapin. bom
January 24. 1900. 2. Frank Mortimer, men-
tioned below.
(IX) Frank Mortimer Chapin. son of Ed-
ward Merrill Chapin, was born June 28. 1869,
in New Hartford, and was educated in the
district schools of New ff.irtforrl He at-
tended The Gunn< ... .^^^
Connecticut, for iv ^me
for one year, and ..,,■... .s.iry
.\cademy for three year-, inun wliuh he
graduated in 1888. He r"i= ' ' rxrinvrntions
for the school of techn- en-
ter. Instead, he went i- his
father, and after t' ' 'ed
to the bu-iness \^ 'he
name of The H. < It
was continue*! until inot. wi; da-
tion wn- r-r-i 'e w>h <ff^\'rv.~ of
R was
St,-: .,:- -
• "h.ipiii i- tr(
is due in a
Mr.
vth
ef-
762
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forts. The business conducts its own store
at 126 Chambers street, New York, under the
management of John E. Humason, son of Vir-
gil P. Humason, who before his death in
1905 had charge of Stephens & Company's
New York interests for twenty-five years be-
fore the consolidation. In pohtics Mr. Chapin
is a Democrat. In 1908 he was first select-
man of the town of New Hartford, and also
candidate for presidential elector. He is a
member of the school board, has been justice
of the peace and member of the board of re-
lief. In religion he is an Episcopalian, and is
collector and treasurer of St. John's Episcopal
Church, Pine Meadow. He is a past master
of Amos Beecher Lodge, No. 121, A. F. and
A. M., New Hartford ; a member of Colum-
bia Chapter, No. 31, R. A. M. ; Lee Council,
No. 25, R. S. M., of Collinsville; Washing-
ton Commandery, K. T. No. i, of Hartford;
past patron of Mayflower Chapter, No. 47, O.
E. S., New Hartford : past venerable consul of
New Hartford Camp, No. 9,612, Modern
Woodmen of America ; a member of the Con-
necticut Field Trial Club. He is also a mem-
ber of the Country Club of Farmington, a
member of the board of governors of the New
Hartford Free Public Library, and a director
and first vice-president of the New Hartford
Savings Bank. On January 4, 191 1, Governor
Simeon E. Baldwin commissioned Mr. Chapin
commissary general, with rank of colonel.
He married, March 24. 1891, Ellie Munger,
daughter of Hon. H. Wales and Sarah (Mun-
ger) Lines, of Meriden, Connecticut. They
have one daughter, Catharine Lines, born July
10, 1892, a student of Smith College.
(The Lines Line).
Henry and Ralph Lines, usually supposed to
have been brothers, settled in New Haven in
1642. Flenry states in the birth record of his
son, Samuel, that he is "second sonne of John
Line (as he saith) of Badby two miles from
Dantry in Northamptonshire."
(I) Ralpli Lines, immigrant ancestor, pos-
sibly the son of John Lyne, of Badby, North-
hamptonshire, England, lived in that part of
New Haven later designated as the parish of
Amity, and now the town of Woodbridge.
He died September 7, 1689, and his estate
showed an inventory of over two hundred and
forty-two pounds. In his will he mentions
sons Samuel, Ralph, Joseph and Benjamin,
wife "Alis'' and daughter Hannah. In a cod-
icil, dated February I, i68g. he mentions the
fact that his daughter Hannah has since died,
and leaves her portion to his wife, Alice, and
in an additional codicil he states that his son
Benjamin has since died, and mentions his
deceased daughter Merriman. The will was
proved November 13, 1689. Children: Sam-
uel, born April, 1649; Ralph, July 18, 1652,
mentioned below ; John, Novemijer, 1655, died
young; Joseph, January, 1658; Benjamin, De-
cember, 1659; Hannah, November 21, 1665.
(II) Ralph (2), son of Ralph (i) Lines,
was born July 18, 1652, lived in Amity, Con-
necticut. He married, April zj , 16S1, Abiah,
daughter of William Bassett, baptized Feb-
ruary 7, 1658. He was baptized j\lay 27,
1694, with his children Hannah, Joseph, Phebe
and Benjamin. In his will, dated January 9,
1712, and proved February 5, 1713, he names
his wife Abiah, sons Joseph and Benjamin,
and several daughters, including Hannah and
Phebe. His estate was inventoried at over
three hundred and si.xty-four pounds. In the
New Haven probate records, "Abia Lines of
New Haven, widdow, is allowed guardian to
Benjamin, Abia, and Rebecckah Lines and ap-
pointed guardian to Alis Lines, being four
minor children of Ralph Lines, late of New
Haven, dec'd". Children: Ralph, died May 8,
1688; Hannah, born July 28, 1684; Joseph,
February 20, 1686; Phebe, June 18, 1687;
Alice, February 27, 1689, died November 18,
1689; Ralph, September 23, i6go, died De-
cember 7, 1693; Benjamin, January i, 1694,
mentioned below ; Abiah, February 7, 1696 ;
Rebecca, February, 1698; Alice, ]\Iarch i,
1702.
(HI) Benjamin, son of Ralpli (2) Lines,
was born January i, 1694, and lived in .\mity.
He was a husbandman, and was called junior
to distinguish him from his cousin of the
same name. He married, February 2, 1720,
Dorcas, daughter of Joseph and Abigail
(Preston) Thomas. Children: Benjamin,
born September i, 1720; James, mentioned
below ; Dorcas, Alice, Mabel.
(IV) James, son of Benjamin Lines, mar-
ried, January 7, 1745, Thankful, daughter of
John and Sarah (Perkins) Sperry. She died
August II, 181 1. He died in January, 1792.
They lived in New Haven. Children: John,
born August 22, 1746; James, November 30,
17^18; Ashbel, April 9, 1751 : Pamela, April
IS- 1756; Ezra, born September 24, 1760,
mentioned below; Benjamin, August 16. 1762;
Sarah, December 31, 1764: Ebenezer, Tune 25,
1767.
(V) Ezra, son of James Lines, was born
September 24, 1760. He removed to New
Haven and was a merchant there many years.
He was originally an Episcopalian but in later
life a member of the North Church. He was
a soldier in the revolution under General Israel
Putnam and was present at Putnam's famous
ride at Greenwich. He married (first)-
Ene'-^edWCtes.E.'-
t ON'NECTICUT
JiiiK' 4, I7S_'. I. IK- Wlicaton. Slic rlied Scp-
tiiiihir 5. i~<M. :iii<l lie married (sec-
ond) January 4. ijys. Widow Abigail Hootl,
dauKlitcr of Captain Josluia and Martha
(Miner) Kay. who died June 5. ijc/i. He
married ( third ) Klizaheth L'mherficld, who
died October g. iSj^. Children of first
wife: Henry, born about 1784; Luc; Uetscy.
Children nf third wife: li/ra Aui;ustus, men-
tioned below; l"re«U-rick ; William; James,
born 1801, died 1806; James, lK)rn about i8of);
Mehitable.
(\I) Ezra Augustus, son of Ezra Lines,
was l)orn in New Haven, September 13, 1797,
not far from the historic mansion at 144 Olive
street, where he himself residetl for mi>re than
eighty years. It was built by one of his
family in 1704. He attended the public
schools of New Haven an<l became associated
with his father in conducting his store, suc-
ceeding,' in time to the ownershi|) of the busi-
ness. He had subsequently a tailoring estab-
lishment, in which, as in various other busi-
ness ventures, be was successful. He was for
many years a director of the National New
Haven Bank at the corner of Orange and
Cha|)el streets, the oldest in the cit\ . For
thirty years he was a member of the Imard of
assessors of New Haven and was the oldest
member at the time of bis retirement. He
was also on the school committee, and member
of the common council of New Haven for a
ntuulier of years. In politics be was a Re-
publican. A gentleman of the old school,
of spotless intetjrits and strong character, he
was highly respected by all classes of people
and beloved by his friends and family. He
was active in the New Haven (irnys and for
many years the accomplished fifer of that
famous company. He was the first player on
the doulilc bass in New Haven and was skilled
in music. He married (first) Lucy Ann Rit-
ter. dieil in 1S51. aged forty-eiRbt. daughter
of David Ritter : (second) Martha, daughter
of William Kimlierly. Children of first wife:
.Xugustus Ezra, born November 4. 182.:. inen-
tioncil Ih-Iow ; (ieorge P.. November 2_\, 1S24,
married .Mmira I*". Augur and .'\nn E. Holt
Hubbard; Jane E., Iiorn .\ugust 2. 1830. Chil-
dren of second wife: Martha; Maria, inar-
ried James H. Rowlaiul.
(\II) .Augustus Ezra, son of Ezra Au-
gustus Lines, was l>orn in New Haven, No-
vember 4, 1822. at the corner of Olive and
Grand streets, and died in New Haven, No-
vember 8, iqo2. He attended the Lincaster-
ian School. Early in life he learned the trade
of engraving on metals in a shop at the corner
of Fulton and Nassau streets. New York
Citv I ;Uer he was eiiipli>\ed in the simp at
7*>^
•!ic
> t.
the corner of
the firm of .'s
si.x vcars he 1
famdy nf Mt
then a htu i<
niaincd n
ing a \
tu:;
Street. He engraved tl^ ■,■•<.■
United States govcrnmei • m
New Haven in " ' ' ' vc-
pidtlican, but i le
inherited a fmi :ll-
ful player, esiH-cially "m tiic flute, t >ne 01 his
pupils snbse<|uentl\ plaved in thr Nfw York
."symphony < )rchestra. II ■ .re
mendK-rs of the t"hurcli r,
formerly Chapel Street t <•-
markalily well informed .1 a
wide range of subjects. I : m
local history and genealo^\ .lii.i j-„.is,cd
some very interesting and valuable pictures "f
various landmarks in this section. He mar-
ried, Jaimary <). 1840, Mary .\. Kimlxrrly,
iMirn .\pril 18, 1824. at tiuilford 1 r, .. ;,tit,
died February 18, ic)o8, dauf^ht n-
berly (see Kiml)crly \I). "
giistus Kimberly, Ixirn in 1850. h
age of thirtv-five vcars; I]arr\
(ad '■ •■■■■•••• ' '•■' •■
•ly Lines, son
by . iiie-, « ;i~ the
son oi l>dnicl (liiiiui .iiiil 11.11'
Kimberly. grandson •>( Eli K
nephew
He was .
He atten..- , .... ,
ven ami studied untlcr various ()rivatc tu-
tors. He began his business cnrnr n= rlrrk
in the office of KimlH-rly &• 1
merchants, of New Haven. Tl-'
cessively in the euv ' ■ •
New Haven & Ha'
the Central New V.v
road and for a few years wiili llie Snutiiern
New England Telriib.>f»r ('..ninanv in New-
Haven. He ^^ '■ s-
man for the \' id
traveled e.\t« ^ 'n
states. Since ■ e
business. He 1 :c,
No. I, Free and ,\ 'm
Chapter, No. 2. R r-
mony Council, N<i. "" i^.
ters : New Haven 2.
Kuii.dit- Temiikir : 'ic
CONNECTICUT
Shrine of Bridgeport, also the various Scot-
tish Rite bodies, having attained the thirty-
second degree. He has held various offices
in the Masonic bodies to which he belongs.
He was commissioned captain of the Second
Company of the Governor's Foot Guards of
New Haven. He is also a member of the
Chamber of Commerce of New Haven ; the
Union League Club of New Haven; the Al-
gonquin Club of New Haven ; the Knights
Templar Club and of St. John's Protestant
Episcopal Church. He is a Republican in
politics. He married, June 7, 1882, Clifford
Hastings Cooke, of Marietta, Georgia. They
have one daughter, Louise Douglas, born No-
vember 16, 1889.
(The Kimberly Line).
(IV) Abraham Kimberly, son of Nathan-
iel Kimberly (q. v.), was the first of the name
in Guilford. He came from West Haven
about 1740 and died at Guilford, February 19,
1797.
(V) George, son of Abraham Kimberly,
married and has a son Eli.
(VI) Eli, son of George Kimberly, and
grandson of Abraham Kimberly, was born
November 2, 1792. in Guilford, Connecticut.
He was a mariner in early life. His home
was on Faulkner's Islaijd, Guilford and
Sachems's Head, having charge of the light-
house on Faulkner's .Head for thirty-three
years. No resident along the coast was bet-
ter or more favorably known to both lands-
men and sailors than Captain Eli Kimberly.
He lived to the age of seventy-nine and was
much lamented. He married Polly Fowler,
of New London, November 12, 1812, and they
had twelve children, among whom were Mary
A., married Augustus E. Lines (see Lines
VII), and Daniel Griffin, father of Captain
Harry Kimberly Lines. He and his wife were
members of the North Church.
Edward Parker, immigrant an-
PARKER cestor, was born in England.
He settled in New Haven,
Connecticut, as early as 1644, and died there
in 1662. He married Elizabeth, widow of
John Potter. Children, born at New Haven :
Mary, baptized August 27, 1648; John, men-
tioned below : Hope, born April 26, 1650, mar-
ried Samuel Cook: Lydia, April 14, 1652, mar-
ried John Thomas.
(II) John, son of Edward Parker, was born
at New Haven, October 8, 1648. He settled
early at what is still known as Parker's Farms
two miles west of the village. He was an act-
ive business man and did much to advance
the interests of the settlement. He died in
171 1. He married, at New Haven, Novem-
ber 8, 1670, Hannah, daughter of William
Bassett ; she died June 7, 1726. Children,
born at New Haven: Hannah, born August
20, 1671; John, March 26, 1675; Abiah,
March 26, 1677; born at Wallingford : Eliza-
beth, married Josiah Royce ; Rachel, born June
16, 1680; Joseph, married Sarah Curtis; Eli-
phalet, married, in 1708, Hannah Beach;
Samuel, married Sarah Goodsell ; Edward,
born 1692, mentioned below ; Mary, married
Joseph Clark ; Abigail.
(Ill) Edward (2), son of John Parker,
was' born in 1692, died October 21, 1776. He
settled in Cheshire parish, Cheshire. He mar-
ried (first) Jerusha Merriam, who died at
Cheshire, December 27, 1745. He married
(second) December i, 1748, Rebecca Ives,
who died May 23, 1762, aged sixty-five. He
married (third) September 30, 1762, Ruth
Merriman Merwin. Children, born at Che-
shire: Ralph, January 9, 1718; Athelred,
July I., 1719; Edward, March 11, 1721 ; Joel,
February 24, 1723, mentioned below ; Eph-
raim, August 23, 1725 ; Amos, November 26,
1726: William, 1728, died May 2, 1752; El-
dad, September 14, 173 1 ; Joseph Merriam,
February 2, 1734: Joseph, October 9, 1735.
(I\') Joel, son of Edward (2) Parker, was
born at Cheshire, February 24, 1723. He
married, December 25, 1746, Susannah Hotch-
kiss. Children, born at Cheshire: Athelred,
September 17, 1747; Amos, October 22, 1749;
Susanna, March 8, 1752; Joel, January 17,
1754: Stephen, mentioned below.
(Y) Stephen, son of Joel Parker, was born
at Cheshire, August 5, 1759. He was a sol-
dier in the revolution and drew a pension late
in life. He was living in Cheshire in 1840,
according to the census, aged eighty-one years
(p. 660 Connecticut Rev. Rolls). He married
(first) May 27, 1787, Sally, daughter of Jo-
seph Twiss. He married (second) January
6, 1805, Rebecca Stone, widow, daughter of
Joshua Ray. She died July i, 1846. Chil-
dren, born in Cheshire, by first wife : Cla-
rissa, June 10, 1788, died i\Iay 27, 1789 ; Zeri,
August I, 1790; Stephen, July 17, 1792, died
January 15, 1794: Stephen, November 3, 1794,
died young: Sarah, March 11, 1797; Clarissa,
March 10, 1800; Joel, March 11, 1801: Isa-
bella, November 25, 1803. Children of second
wife: John, August 30, 1805: Betsey, ]\Iay i,
1807 : Charles, mentioned below : Edmund,
February 9, 181 1, married Jennette Bradley.
(\T) Charles, son of Stephen Parker, was
born January 2, 1809, at Cheshire, and lived
to the great age of ninety-three years. From
the age of nine to fourteen he lived with the
familv of Porter Cook, a farmer of Walling-
r (TTICUT
765
ford, attendiri)^ the district scIkjoI aiii w runy
on the farm. When he \va> eijjhteen year>
old he entered tlie emiiiiiy ui Aiimjii Mathews,
a manufacturer of pewter huttons in South-
ington, Connecticut, receiving as wages at
first six ilollars a month and l)(>;ird. A year
later he went to wori< fur li.iny & Horace
Smith, who were also maimlaclurers of hut-
tons, and six months later he accci>ted a po-
sition in the factory of Patrick Lewis, manu-
facturer of coffee mills. A year later he be-
gan to manufacture cotfce mills on his own
accoimt. making a contract with Patrick Lewis
and Liias Holt to deliver a certain lunnljcr of
mills per month. With a capital of $70 he
succeeded in this business in making a profit
of $1,800 in the first thirteen months. In
1831 he became associated with Jared Lewis
in the same line of contracting and in the
following January Mr. Parker sold out to
his partner, bought an acre of laml, on which
was an old houye, for which he |)aid $ii$o, and
built a stone shop "which was finished in the
spring of 1832 and in wliicii he carric<l on
the manufacture of coffee mills and waffle
irons. In Xovcmber, 1833. his brother, Ed-
mund Parker, an<l Heinan White were ad-
mitted to partnership in the business under
the firm name of Parker & White. During
this partncrshi[) the business had many trials
and some reverses, but none ever atlected the
financial standing of Mr. Parker. His brother
retired in 1843 and Mr. White the year fol-
lowing. The only power used up to this time
was furnished by a horse attached to a pole
sweep. The steam engine installed by this
concern in 1844 was the first used in Meridcn.
The industry grew to mammoth jiroportions,
and now has four engines with a capacity of
500 horse power with twenty lK)ilcrs having a
capacity of 2.000 horse [Kiwer. besides water
power at the factories at East Meriden and
Yalesville. .\t first Mr. Parker not only made
but sold his own gixids. He made extended
trips twice a year and on one occasion took
an order tliat rcfpiircd two years for the fac-
tory to fill. The present method of working
on orders had not then come into practice
generally. A few years later, Mr. Parker
added to his pro<luct the making of silver-
plated spoons and forks aiiil was the first to
make plateil iiollow ware in .Meriden at what
is known locally as Parker's S|)oiin Shop,
the power for which is supplieil by FUack
pond. The output of this factory at present is
largely lamp products and steel spcxins,
knives and forks. The capacity of the fac-
tory is very large and the goods arc sold not
only in all parts of this country but extcn-
sivelv in f. neii^ii countrie-. .\ltlnnigh the
making oi -\n
important pan
coniiiiiu-J i.i.i,
wa-
is i<
to inc ouipui
now.
hui a
ste., .f
a I ' 11
the
tanie laillici .-r
Clock Karli>ry :c
ma^! ' ' e
ma. 11
torn !■»
been given to 11
extent, now p is
branch of the r c
years ai;o. I • r
Riin^ ' n
the :i-
pan\ .f
Parker liroihcrs. i-.
a world-wide repnlrt' .-
liability. ;,
has been 1 •!-
ufacturcii ... vi.... a
hundred and fifty si. ;.>
the uses of every t: is
the largest manufacturer of vims mul cof-
fee mills in the country. At the main fac-
tory are | ' • ■ • • "el
wood scri i.|
electric p h
room fittings. -c
mills arc asst • it
the wo<-)<lwork 1
ville. The con -,
ben.' ly
otli. 1.)
scar' y.
Until i<>»5. tiic Charles Parker Cuinpaiiy also
owned and opern»"d the pbnt known a<: the
Meriden Curt.i'
est concern of
ing some five
ness is now ci.'
making siniil.Tr
CoIumbi.T ~
The bti -6 with
a capital 01 >; ' cr
Company, and .i-
panv, whii li it n.
The first : CharJc-
ident : ( Park«T. \ i ;
Dexter \\ . 1' r.
Since the deatl \-
tcr W. P.t' ■ !•".
Parker. \
retarv atv "-
766
CONNECTICUT
pany, incorporated June 12. 1893, has the fol-
lowing officers : William H. Lyon, president
and treasurer ; James F. Allen, secretary. The
various Parker companies give steady em-
ployment to about 1.500 hands, most of whom
are skillful mechanics. Its development has
contributed materially to the growth and
prosperity of the city of Meriden. The New
York salesrooms are at 32 Warren street.
Since the death of Charles Parker, the gen-
eral management has devolved upon his son-
in-law, William H. Lyon, who has been con-
nected with the company for many years.
About twenty years before his death Mr.
Parker was stricken with disease that kept
him confined most of the time to his home,
but did not afTect his mental and intellectual
vigor and he continued to direct his business
affairs. To the very end of his life, his deci-
sion was sought and given in important mat-
ters. Few men have had such a long and re-
markable business career. No man's business
credit in the history of Meriden was higher
than his. The great diversity of products
of the company and the enormous capital re-
quired in the business called for the highest
financial ability in the management. "The
evolution of his business life from an appren-
tice boy to a captain of industry would be
the story of the growth of a small inland
Connecticut town possessing a few local ad-
vantages, developing in a comparatively few
years into a thriving and prosperous city,
prominent among the residents of which he
was a prince among equals."
Mr. Parker was naturally one of the fore-
most citizens of Meriden. He took a lively
interest in municipal affairs, and exerted a
large and wholesome influence in the com-
munity. In his early life he was a Democrat.
He was one of the presidential electors from
Connecticut who voted for Franklin Pierce
for president. After the civil war broke out,
however, he gave his loyal support to the
Union, and helped to equip companies of mi-
litia in response to the first call for troops
and became a prominent Republican. He was
a delegate to both Republican national con-
ventions at which General Grant was nomi-
nated for president. When Meriden was in-
corporated as a city in 1867, Mr. Parker
was given the handsome compliment of the
choice of the people for their first mayor and
he started the new city government with wis-
dom and foresight. He set a standard that
has been well maintained ever since. He was
a member of Meridian Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted INIasons, and was the last surviving
charter member of the lodge. He was also
a member of St. Elmo Commandery, Knights
Templar, to which he presented a beautiful
banner in memory of his brother. Rev. John
Parker, his son. Wilbur Parker, and his
nephew, Geoi"ge WHiite Parker, all of whom
were Knights Templar. He joined the So-
ciet)' of the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion in 1893. From early manhood he was a
faithful member of the First Methodist Epis-
copal Church, to which at one time he gave
$40,000 toward the building fund. He erected
one of the finest residences in the city on
Broad street. It is now occupied by his son
Dexter W.
He married, in 183 1. Abi Lewis Eddy, of
Berlin, Connecticut. They had ten children ;
among whom were : Dexter Wright, men-
tioned below ; Annie D., married William H.
Lyon : Charles E.
(VH) Dexter Wright, son of Charles Par-
ker, was born November 23, 1849, i" -^feri-
den. He attended the Russell Collegiate and
Commercial School in New Haven. He was
appointed to the United States Military Acad-
emy at West Point by Congressman \\''arner.
of Middletown, and graduated in the class of
1870 with the rank of second lieutenant. He
was in active service in the Sixth United
States Cavalry on the frontier of Texas, In-
dian Territory and Kansas. He resigned
from the army to become his father's partner
in the great business he had established in
Meriden, and when the firm became a corpo-
ration in 1877-78 he became an officer of the
company. Year by year his share of the man-
agement became larger and finally the bur-
den of management was placed upon him and
his brother, Charles E. Parker. The great
concern continued its amazing growth and
prosperity under his guidance. His health
failed and he retired for a time. After the
death of his brother he became treasurer, and
in 1902 when his father died, he naturally suc-
ceeded him as president. He is a director of
the City Savings Bank and was formerlv a
director of the First National Bank of Meri-
den. He is a member of the Home Club of
Meriden. In politics he is a Republican. He
is unmarried.
The Parker family has been
PARKER actively and prominently iden-
tified with the welfare and ad-
vancement of Norwich, Connecticut and rep-
resentatives in each generation have borne
honorable parts in public aft'airs, especially in
military and naval life, and have left records
of upright lives.
(I) \\'illiam Parker was the immigrant an-
cestor.
(II) Robert, son of ^^'illiam Parker, mar-
. I A 1 n I 1
707
ried (tir>t> January 28. 1657. Sarah James.
Children: Mary. Inirn .Xjiril 1, 1658; Sam-
uel, June 30. ifrf^io: .Mice, January 20, if/)2;
James. .March, if/14. Mc married (secon<l)
August, iiiiij. Patience, dauj^hter of Henry
CobI). Cliillrcn: Thomas, Imrn .Xuj^ust 24.
1669. was an nrij^iiial meinher nf the cluircli
at Fainii'utli, .Massachusett>. in 1707, ordained
a deacon. March (>, 1745. married, Decenihcr
5, i(*),\. Mary Jenkins; Daniel, Ixirn .\]>r\\ 18,
1670: JoNciih, see forwanl: Itenjamin. March
15. '^'74: llannah. .Xpril, ih~(i: Sarah. June,
i'>7S; IClisha, April, i()8o; .Mice, Septcmhcr
15. KkSi.
(Ill I Joseph, son of Kohcrt and Patience
(Cohh) I'arker, was born in February, 1^172,
dic<l in 1732. lie was also an original mem-
ber of the I'almouth church. Me married.
June .V3. ■'K)7-(>8, Mercy W'histoii. sometimes
written Whetstone or \Vhiton. Children: Jo-
seph, horn in i<*jf); John, see forward; Tim-
othy. 170.^; Scth, 1705; Sylvamis, 1707;
Mary, i7oi>.
(1\ I John, son of Joseph and Mercy
(Whiston) Parker, was born in 1700, and
removed to N'orwich, Connecticut, in 1745.
He was admitted to the church at l-'almonth.
Massachusetts, Xovember, 1741. lie married.
1734, Elizabeth .^mitii. Giildren: Timothy,
see forward: Mary, born January 15, 1737;
John and ICIizabcth. .March 2~. 1731).
( \ ( Captain Timothy, eldest child of John
and I'lizabeth (Smith) Parker, was born in
Kahnoiuh. Massachusetts, May 17, 1735, died
.May 27. 1797. lie had been a naval ci>m-
niander jirior to the beji'inninji of the revolu-
tionary war, and he rem;iincd in the merchant
service. In I77'>. while returniui,' from the
\\ est Indies, he was made a i)risoner. taken to
New York, and there endured the hardships
of the prisoners of those days. In September.
1777. he was released, aiiil appointed to serve
as lieutenant on the "Oliver Cromwell," which
was the lari,'est cruiser of the state of Con-
necticut. 1 te was promoted to the captaincy
of this vessel, made several cruises in her,
ami in company with another Connecticut
cruiser, April 13. 1778. foutjht a severe but
successfid battle with three P.ritish ships.
These sjijps, as well as a munber of other
armed vessels bel'mginij to the enemy, were
captured by Captain Parker. In June. 1778,
he was oblijjcd to ca])itulate to a far larger
P.ritish force, but the •^truKijle was a tribute
to his ability as a commander as well as to
his seamanship. lie was atrain jdaced in one
of the I'nijlish prison >hiiis. manaijed to escape
by way of lonif Island, and returned to Nor-
wich. Later he was placed in conuiiand of
various privateers, the one with which he was
last connected Lv...^ \. •• .
close of the war he
with the merchant n
married, March 23.
ChiMrcn: Ann. Iwi
John. ■ '
'77:
ary 1 . , , '
K<ist 24, i7>/j, m Cii..
(\l) John (2\.
and Delxirah :i
March 10, 177.' ,
sea captain •"" 1
he went i n
navy whili
taincd the rank ut 1
command of the "I 1
of a fever ' '
of Ilondir
1819. Tlh
tion of the valualile servici ;.
gave grants of land to hi
were never claimed. (
married, .\pril 25, iSt)2. .- t
10. 1771. tlied .November
of F.benezer and .Mary ( I
granddaughter of Daniel .
hitch, and great-granldaugluti .'J Uw. J.inie>
and .Mice l'"itch. the former the first niinisirr
at .Norwich, and the latter a grai. ' ' ' f
(iovernor William PradfMrd. •
flower." Fbenezer anil .Mary <[- .,. ;. i
Fitch were married September 3, 1750. Chil-
dren: F.lizabeth .\nn. l)orn May 28, 1803. die<l
unmarried, in Norwich, .\pril i«i, |87<); Tim-
othy, December 15. 1804, died in 1832: John
Henry, February 2U. '^ ■" ' ' ■■• ' '•'■1
in Norwich: Mary F.!I -i.
died March 19, 181. e
forward.
(\'\\) F.benezer Fitch, younge.sl chihl of
John (2) and Sarah (Fitch) Parker, was
ixirn in Norwich, Decemlier 25. 1812, dieil
.'September 21. 1897, and was buru.l m N .m-
tic cemetery. He was but se\.
when his father die<l. and at tb.
teen years he commenced to learn i!
of cabinet making, with Deacon Hor.
ton, where he remained two years,
then until he attained his majority c
as a clerk in tin _i"cery and drug -'
Lester & ' 1 Water street. I or a
time he v. ! in the hmilwr vanl of
Dr. William r 1 ii n at \ " ' ' 11
the steamer "("icneral }:>■
tween Norwich an<l ^' ■ n
the gnx'crv busines*
uel n. Phillips. Jr.. 11.
lips &• Parker, and whci'. t^.c inn; 44-.-,;htd
Mr. Parker continued the business alone for
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some years. He finally disposed of it and
formed a connection with Hyde & Hall, mer-
chants of Norwich. Mr. Parker entered the
employ of the Norwich & Worcester railroad
about 1S40, served as conductor for one week,
was then made master of transportation and
retained this position for thirty-seven years,
when he resigned. Subsequently he became
accountant for the Reade Paper Company,
continuing with them, under Edwin S. Ely,
until they went out of business. The New
London County Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany next claimed his attention, and he held
the office of president for thirty-five years.
His health having become impaired, he re-
signed from this position, and lived retired
from all business atfairs for three years prior
to his death. His political affiliations were
with the Democratic party, and he served as
a member of the city council for some time.
He was appointed harbor master by Governor
Jewell, and held this position until his death.
Mr. Parker was a man of wide and diversified
reading, an interesting speaker, and his kind
heart and optimistic disposition gained for
him a host of friends. He married, Novem-
ber 9, 1836, Susan Cross, born in Stonington,
Connecticut, in 1821, died January i, 1879,
daughter of James Clark. Children: i.
Henry Lester, see forward. 2. Walter Farns-
worth, born August 3, 1839; he married, De-
cember 22, 1861, Sarah Catherine Hartt;
children : Ella Crane, widow of Charles P. B.
Peck, of New York ; Carrie H., deceased ;
Marco Smith, married Miriam Hoyt and re-
sides in New York; Walter F., lives in New
York, where he is president of the Peck Press.
3. Robert Bottum, born October 21, 1842;
for a number of years he was a ticket agent
at Norwich for the Norwich & Worcester rail-
road, was engaged in the mercantile busi-
ness for a time, and is now living retired ; he
has attained the thirty-second degree in the
Masonic fraternity : married, September 19,
1877, Annie Cornelia Kelley, who died May
13, 1879. 4- John Ford, born August 2, 1846.
5. Ebenezer Fitch, born October 21, 1854; is
married and resides in New York. 6. George
Brewster, born August 7, 1857, is unmarried
and lives in New York. 7. Frank Clark, born
November 8, i860, died September 5, 1861.
(\'III) Flenry Lester, eldest child of Eben-
ezer Fitch and Susan Cross (Clark) Parker,
was born in Norwich, August 21, 1837;
died November 7, 1908, He received
an excellent education until he was fif-
teen years old, when he entered the em-
ploy of the Boston & Sandwich Glass Com-
pany in Boston, remaining in that city a num-
ber of years. Upon his return to his native
city he obtained a position with the Norwich
& Worcester railroad under the supervision
of his father. He then went to Chicago and
was employed as freight clerk by the Illinois
Central railroad, and later became a clerk in
the Howard House in New York. He again
returned to Norwich, formed a connection
with the Norwich & New York Transporta-
tion Company, became secretary and later
treasurer of that corporation, and held these
positions about twenty years. He became as-
sociated in a partnership with his brother,
John F., in 1877, in the insurance business,
two years united with the business of Thomas
H. Perkins, the firm becoming Perkins &
Parker Brothers, and in 1883, Mr. Perkins'
interests having been purchased, the firm re-
turned to its old style of Parker Brothers.
Three years later the impaired health of 3,ir.
Henry Lester Parker caused him to dispose of
his interest in this concern. In spite of the
many demands made upon his time by his per-
sonal afifairs, Mr. Parker served as secretary,
treasurer and director of the Norwich Water
Povv'er Company, and was president of the
board of water commissioners for many years.
He joined Trinity Episcopal Church in his
early years, and all his life took an active in-
terest in its affairs, serving as vestryman,
senior warden, superintendent of the Sunday
school and for many years as parish treas-
urer. His entire family joined the same
church. In his political affiliations 'Sir. Par-
ker was a Democrat, and served his town as
a member of the common council. His frater-
nal relations were .of a high order and he was
one of the two oldest thirty-third degree Ma-
sons in the state of Connecticut. He was a
member of Somerset Lodge, No. 34, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons, having been made
a Master Mason in 1859 ; was a member of
Franklin Chapter, No. 4; Franklin Council,
No. 3 ; Columbian Commandery, No. 4,
Knights Templar, and held almost every office
in the different branches. He and the late
Judge C. W. Carter were appointed members
of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand
Inspectors of the thirty-third degree, for the
Northern Masonic District of the L^nited
States, May 18, 1865.
Mr. Parker married, December 30, 1857,
Ann Meech, born August 17, 1836, died Oc-
tober 22, 1894, daughter of Colonel Asa and
Elizabeth (Allyn) Roath, of Norwich. Chil-
dren: I. Susan May, born May 7, 1859, is
a member of Faith Trumbull Chapter, Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution. She mar-
ried, July 2, 1883, i\Iartin E. Jensen, of Nor-
wich. Child : Gerard Edward, born March
10, 1884, was graduated from the Norwich
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Itcc .\c;iik-iii> m \(j>2,:ini\ I'rimi Sale Univer-
sity. 2. l-'li/.iliith Knatli. I)'>rn M;i> 27, |W>| ;
married. Scptciulicr u. iSXj. Henry A. Nor-
ton, of Norwich. 3. (ieranl Lester, Ixirn in
Norwich, Connccticnt, Se])tenilicr 4, i8»V'>; c<l-
iicatol in tlie ]iul)lic schools of Norwich, and
at an early a|,'c >howc<l a decided inclination
for inaniilactiirin),' interests, more es|)e:ially
niacliincry. Siiue I><S_^ he lias tieen connected
with the inaufactiire oi machinery. He was
in the employ of C. I'. R(i;;er> & Company,
mamifacturers of machinery at Norwich, for
a period of thirteen years, then with Xiistin
& Ilildy, of |to>ton, for two years. Snbse-
quently he was with the J. A. I"ay & Eyan
Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, for almost eipht
years, enj^ajjed in the manufacture of wojd-
workinj; machinery. Since ir)07 he has been
with S. A. Woods Machine Company, of
Boston, and holds the [wsitions of secretary
and a-i>i-taiit treasurer in that important cor-
poration. His residence is in Itrookline, .Mas-
sachusetts. .Mr. I'arker married, December
8, 1897. Fannie .\rnoKI Carpenter, of Nor-
wich. They have two dau;jhters : .\nnettc
and Lester. 4. .\nne Meech. Ixirn .\ujjust
26, |8^>S; married. October 14, 1891, Henry
Halsey Walker and resides in Norwich. 5.
Henry I-'itcli. see forward.
(IN) Henry I'itch. youngest child of Henry
Lester and Ann Meech ( R<iath ) I'arker, was
born in Norwich, October 0, 1874. and re-
ceived his education in the public schools of
hi.s native town.
He entered up,>n business as a clerk for N.
S. Gilbert & Sons, at Norwich, in .\pril,
1892, remainiuf; in their employ until Janu-
ary, i<>04, when he resigned his position. For
a ninnlier of year^ he has been one of the
most iimminent members of Trinity Episcopal
Church : is a vestrvman and has served for
a lontj time as the parish treasurer. He be-
came a memlicr of the Sons of the .\merican
Revolution in i8o'i. and is secretary and treas-
urer of the Israel Putnam branch of that or-
ganization in the city of Norwich, and by vir-
tnre of that i^ffice is a member of the Ixiarfl
of managers of the st.ite. He is a member
of the board of [lark commissioners of Nor-
wich and has been since its organization. He
is a director of the Norwich Nickel and I'rass
Company, anti a trustee of the Chelsea .Sav-
ings Hank of Norwich, a member of the New
London County Horticultural Society of Nor-
wich and the New London County .\gricnl-
tural Sinriety of Norwii^h. He is a Demixrat
and was electe<l an alderman of the city of
Norwich in loio. He married. December i,
IQOO. Elizabeth Eastmead Scofield. of Pough-
keepsie. New York.
.\ hrst edi-
ifSi The
The surtM
LEE TE gone var.
cations in , - .,
Letc. Lcty, Lcct. Lctte, Lyttc and sinniar
form- with the prcijo'-ition c/r nn! 'hr nrti'dc
le. \ '.ever, as 1' m
Eliz.i IS Leetc. • I
the ; ■ •
hav.
in til ,
Lcet. In 127 J we In 1'
Lynton Parva, Camb- t
date the snrnani'
England. .\ siij
ily, inchuling tlu ... . , .
lished in 190^) by Jo
tion of this work wa- ;
Leete coal-of-arms : Arf,tii; ou ■^
between two rolls of matche- I
proper a martlet or. Crest: d
coronet or, an anlii|Me lamp or, h
(I) Thomas Leete, to whom . :: .
is traced in England, lived at ( )akmKion and
Comberton and was asses.se<l to the 'stib'^idy
for Cambridgeshire in 1522-2J. He w
ied at t^akin^jton, July 9. 15A4. IJc :
.-\lsc (.Mice) , who was buried .ii > mk
ington, February 3, 1766.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1)
Leete, married, November 12, 1568, at Oak-
ington, . Me was assessed to the sub-
sidy for Cambridgeshire in 1566-67 and 1571-
J2. and was buried at Oakington, l-"ebruary 4,
1582.
(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2)'
Leete. livefl at Oakingt"'" nn! was named in
the visitation of H' re in 1613.
He was warrlen of il irch at Oak-
ington in 1598, and w.i i.;;Tii.i there No-
vember 12. \iiH>. He married. June 2, 1574,
Maria ."slade, who was buried at Oakington.
Sei'tember 25. 1610. daughter of Edward
.'slade, of Rushton. Northamptonshire. Ot!1-
ilrcn : John, mentioned l>elow ; John
two sons the same name was not
mon ). lived at Islington ; Ricbarrl, churcii «.ii -
den of Oakington, njarried Elizabeth or Isa-
bella Rogers.
(l\') John, son of Thomas (3) Leete, was
of Dodington : was named in the V'i«it.-itinns
of Hants in 1613 and 1^.48. H. .d
May 13, 1575. at Oakington. ai :i
Deceml>cr, 1648. He marrl- ' .-r
of Robert Shute, one of ' • e
King's Mench in 1650. CI r
William, mentioned below: ji.lin. ui Midlow
Grange, married .Sarah Filbrig ; .Anne, mar-
rieil Robert Raby.
(\') Governor William Leete, son of John
Leete. of Dodington. was Mm in 1612 or
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1613. "He was bred to the law and served
for a considerable time in the Bishop's Court
at Cambridge where, observing the oppres-
sions and cruelties then practiced on the con-
scientious and virtuous Puritans, he was led
to examine more thoroughly their doctrines
■and practice, and eventually to become a Puri-
tan himself and to give up his office." He
married, at Hail AVeston, Huntingdonshire,
-August I, 1636, Anne, daughter of Rev. John
Paine, minister of Southoe, in county Hunts.
She died in Connecticut, September i, 1668.
He married (second) Sarah, widow of Henry
Rutherford : she died February 10, 1673. He
married (third) Mary, widow of Governor
Francis Newman and of Rev. Nicholas Street ;
she died December 13, 1683. After his mar-
riage he lived for a short time in Keyston,
Huntingdonshire, and there his first child,
Mary, was born and died. In the Visitation
of Hants in 1684, the record signed by John
Leete, brother of Governor Leete, reads :
"William Leete, eldest son, Governour of Har-
ford in New England, now living 1684 as is
supposed aet. 71."
William Leete came to New England with
Rev. Mr. Whitfield's company and he was one
of the signers of the Plantation Covenant on
shipboard, June i, 1639, arriving in New Ha-
ven about July 10, following. When they
had agreed upon Guilford as a place to settle
he was one of six chosen to buy the lands of
of the Indians, in trust, for the plantation, un-
til their organization was effected. When
the lands were laid out, Leete received a lot
opposite William Chittenden on the corner
of what is now Broad street and River. His
outlying land, some two hundred and fifty
acres, was located about three miles away and
the locality was named for him Leete's Island.
His seal bearing the coat-of-arms described
above has been preserved by his descendants.
He figured prominently in public life. He
was clerk of the plantation from 1639 to 1662.
He was one of four to whom was intrusted
the whole civil power of the plantation with-
out limitation until a church was formed, June
19, 1643, ^nd he was one of the seven pillars.
He and Samuel Disborough were chosen to
meet the court at New Haven in 1643 when
the combination of the plantations was made
and a general court established for the en-
tire New Haven colony. Leete was a deputy
from Guilford to this court until 1650, and
from 165 1 to 1658 magistrate of the town.
In 1658 he was chosen deputy governor of the
colony and continued in that office until the
union with Connecticut in 1664. Afterward
he was assistant until 1669 when he was elect-
ed deputy governor of the Connecticut colony.
holding the office until 1676 when he was
chosen governor, which he held by reelection
until his death in 1683. Upon his election as
governor he removed to Hartford. His tomb-
stone is in the rear of the First Church of
Hartford. "During the term of forty years"
says Dr. Trumbull, the historian, "he was
magistrate, deputy governor or governor of
one or other of the colonies. In both colonies
he presided in times of greatest difficulty, yet
always conducted himself with such mtegrity
and wisdom as to meet the public approba-
tion." When two of the judges of Charles I.,
Goffe and ^'\^^alley, fled to New England for
safety after the Restoration, Governor Leete
secreted them in the cellar of his store and
cared for them several days.
Children, all by first wife : John, mentioned
below ; Andrew, born 1643 > William, married
Mary Fenn ; Abigail ; Caleb, born August 24,
1651; Gratiana, December 22, 1653; Pere-
grine, January 12, 1658 ; Joshua, 1659 ; Anna,
March 10, 1661.
(A^I) John (2), son of Governor William
Leete, was born in 1639, said to have been the
first white child born in Guilford. He died
November 25, 1692. He married, October
4, 1670, Mary Chittenden, born 1647. daugh-
ter of William and Joanna ( Sheaf e) Chitten-
den. She died March 9, 1712. Children:
Ann, born August 5, 1671 ; John, January 4,
1674; Joshua, July 7, 1676; Sarah, December
16, 1677; Pelatiah, mentioned below; Me-
hitable, December 10, 16S3 : Benjamin, De-
cember 26, 1686; Daniel, September 23, 1689.
(VII) Deacon Pelatiah, son of John (2)
Leete, was born at Guilford, March 26, 1681.
He settled on Leete's Island, Guilford, where
no previous settlement had been made, and
built a house where Edward L. Leete recently
lived. He owned much land and was a well-
to-do farmer. He kept a hundred head of cat-
tle. His homestead descended to him from
his grandfather and father and at last accounts
was in the possession of his descendants. He
was deacon of the Fourth Church of Guil-
ford, and often represented the town in the
general court. He died October 13, 1768,
very old. His wife died October 22, 1769,
aged ninety years. They lived together for
sixty-three years. He married July i. 1705,
Abigail, born in 1679, daughter of Abraham
and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Fowler. Children,
born at Guilford : Abigail, born September
13' 1707: Daniel, October 14, 1709: Mehitabel,
September 28, 1711; Pelatiah, mentioned be-
low: Mehitabel, 1714.
(A^III) Deacon Pelatiah (2), son of Dea-
con Pelatiah (i) Leete, was born at Guilford,
March 7, 1713, died May 28, 1786. He mar-
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77^
ricfl. Nfarch 26, 1740. Lyrlia, Iwrn March 14.
1719. flicd Autjust 13. 1772. (laiiKhtcr of Uea-
cnn Sniniicl .ind ^[inll\velI ( Miii;^ I Cruttcn-
den. of (iuilfonl. lie \v:is ileac-ni of the
Fourth ConLjrc^'ational Church of tliat town,
lie lived on I.eete's Island. Chil<lren, bom
at (iiiilford: rdatiah. Marc!) 4, 1741, died
younK': I'elatiah, .April 22. 1744. mentioned
below; I^ydia. October 24. 1749 (twin) ; \oah
(twin) : i'lber, March 23, 1752: Simeon, .April
'4. '753: Amos. .April 25, 1758; Nathan,
1762.
(IX) Pclatiah (3), son of Dcticon f'cla-
tiah (2) Lectc. was born .April 22. 1744, died
March 2. iSoTi. He married (tir>t) Jime 17,
1767, Hethiah Norton, who dieil [mie 30,
•"W. -'Kt'd fifty-six years, daiij^hter of Thomas
and Methiah Norton, of Guilford, lie mar-
ried (second) November 10, 1794, Mary Fris-
bie, of North Mranford, who died Jannary 14,
1832, aged seventy-six years. Children, born
at Lcete's I<lanil. (iuilfonl: Joel, mentioned
below: Noah, I'ebrnary 22. 1770; FVIatiah,
July 3, 1773: Mary, b'ebriiary 15. 1798.
(X» Joel, son of Pelatiah (3) I.eete, was
born at (jiiilford, .April 13, i~f)^, died Janu-
ary 28, 1842. He married. May 2/, 1790,
Molly, born .\upust 23, t7<)3, died .November
27. 1843. danjjbter of .\oali and .Naomi (.\t-
wcll) Cnittenden, of Ciuilford. Children, born
at I.eete's Island, Ciuilford: .Alvan, Ant;ust
24. 1791, mentioned below: Polly Maria,
March 7, 1794: Morris .Atwell. November 10,
1795: Frederick William. July 6, 1803.
( XI) Captain Alvan. son of Joel Leete, was
born .Auijust 24. 1791. died July 6. 1882. He
was for many years a teacher in the public
schools of (iuilford and vicinity. He was cap-
tain in the militia. In religfion he was a Con-
gregationali>t : in politics a Whig and Re|)ub-
lican.
He married. January 13, i8i''>, Rclx'cca,
widow of Williatn Hutler, and daughter of
Isaac and .Abigail (Tyler) Palmer, of I'.ran-
ford. She was Iiorn February 14, 1789. died
January id. i8(.2. Chibtren, born at (iuilford :
Abigail Mari.T. N'ovember 18, 1816, married
A. \V. Leete: Fliza Ann, March 3. 1818,
married C. Rolibin>; Isaac Palmer, ^iarl■ll 9.
1821. married Clarissa Foote : Edwi;i Alonzo,
mentioned below : Marietta. July 20. 1827,
died January 18. 1877.
(XII) Deacon Edwin .Alonzo, son of Cap-
tain .Alvan Leete. was Iwrn December 21,
1822.
He was educated in the public schools,
an<l followed the trade of cabinet making in
his native town. He was deacon of the church
and a highly respected citizen. He married
(fir>;t) November 23. 1847. S. Ellen. Iwrn No-
vemf)cr 10, 1825, d.i
F'annv < Norton > ?b '
3. •>■■'
ond
of L
lec) I
the 1
ricil
14. I
ley) I Af
Deacon .A
10. 1774: 1
rine. l)orn >cpteml>ei
5, 1830. daughter of i
Icy) Ward.
Deacon Ambrose Lectc, father of A
Leete, was |y>rn January >■■ •-■^'
ford; married. .November
born February 28. 1747, ^\:■. n
and Rachel (White) Chittcii.lcu. Ainlir..sc
was chosen a ficacon of the I'ourlh Church
of Ciuilford in 17S6 ami of tlic First (.Tiurch
in 1807: he died February 14, 1809; she died
September 16, 1838.
I)aniel Lectc, father of Deacon Ambrose
Lectc, was son of Deacon Pclatiah Leete
(\'II), mentioned alxivc. Daniel niarricd,
June 14. 1738. Rlnxla Stone. Ixirn Novcml>er
2, 1719, (Iie<l Decemli ' ■■ ■-• > ■• f
Caleb and .^arab (.M(
a deacon of the i ^
Church.
Edwin .Alonzo Lectc learned the ti
cabinet maker un<ler John Kiml)crly in < iiiil
ford, and worked for him four years. He
was employed as a journeyman by Jonas H.
Howditch, of New Haven, manufacturer and
dealer in furniture, for a short time. .After-
ward he came to (Iuilford and worked for
two years in the shipyards at East river owned
by Eber Hotchkiss. For a numtn'r "f
be dealt in hardwixid lumlier for tlii
York City market. He enlisted in tin
army in 1862, in Company I, Fourteenth <
nccticut Regiment, under rnpfnin !<:n-f
son. Colonel Dwight ^'
ice for six m<inihs ;iii
of .Antietam. He w.i
dria shortly afterwar'l
disability. .After reti;'
engaged in cabinet making un Ui> own ac-
count. He openerl a fiirnifnro >iforr and c*-
tablishefl ,i- ' • ■ • . ., .
business 1:
came the k .. . ; ..c
most successful i action. In
religion he was .1 'in politics
a Republican and Littr .1 -•
Children of Edwin ,\loii (ir>t
wife: Fanny Rebecca, born t ■. i ..<.. . ,. 1848.
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married Ezra S. Kelsey ; James Spencer, Sep-
tember 8, 1850, died jNIarch 23, 1857. Chil-
dren of second wife: Edward Morris,
mentioned below ; Catharine Ward, Novem-
ber 28, i860, married Fred W. Seward; Eliz-
abeth Morris, February 10, 1867, graduated
from the State Normal School at New Brit-
ain, for the past five years a teacher in the
William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia ;
William Henry, December 3, 1868, in Guil-
ford, formerly with the New York, New Ha-
ven & Hartford Railroad Company, afterward
assistant to the general superintendent of the
Los Angeles Terminal Railroad, and cashier
and paymaster on the San Pedro, Los Angeles
& Salt Lake Railroad, and now treasurer of
the latter, married Caroline Hopkins Barnes,
of Binghamton, New York.
(Xni) Edward Morris, son of Edwin
Alonzo Leete, was born in Guilford, August
18, 1858. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town, and learned of his
father the trade of cabinet making. He be-
came associated in business with his father
and succeeded to the business. He repre-
sented the town in the general assembly of the
state, as so many of his ancestors had done
in the earlier days. He was elected in 1900.
In politics he is a Republican, and a Congre-
gationalist in religion. He is a member of St.
Albans Lodge, No. 38, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Guilford.
Edward Morris Leete married, October
15, 1879, Eva S., born April 19, 1858, daugh-
ter of Elisha Chapman and Charlotte G.
(Fowler) Bishop (see Bishop VIII). Her
sister, Mary C. (Bishop) White, is a member
of the Society of Colonial Wars and of the
Daughters of the .American Revolution, in
both of which i\Irs. Leete is entitled to mem-
bership. Mary C. Bishop married Miles G.
White, of Hartford, Connecticut. Mrs.
Leete's interest in family history and heir-
looms have led her into an interesting busi-
ness, which has grown to large proportions,
for she has now in tlie town of Guilford three
houses furnished with colonial and antique
furniture and two large storehouses full of
similar goods. She has had the contract for
furnishing various state buildings and head-
quarters at national and international exhibi-
tions, and is recognized as an authority on all
kinds of colonial and antique goods. Mrs.
Leete is a graduate of the Guilford high school
and is well known in business as well as so-
cial circles in this section. Children of Mr.
and Mrs. Leete: Frank Chapman, born Au-
gust 16, 1881, unmarried; Earl Bishop, No-
vember 8, 1887; Charlotte Elizabeth, August
14, T889.
The surname Bishop is of
BISHOP cient English origin. Just how
the title of a sacred office of the
Catholic church came to be used for a sur-
name is lost in the obscurity of ancient his-
tory. It is suggested that it must have been
a personal name or a nickname of some pro-
genitor, just as majors and deacons are some-
times given. Other names, like Pope, are of
this class. Bishop was in common use in
England as a surname many centuries ago,
and no less than eleven immigrants came
from there to JNIassachusetts before 1650 with
their families. Various branches of the Eng-
lish Bishop family bear coat-of-arms and have
had titles and dignities of various sorts.
(I) Thomas Bishop, of Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, died February 7, 1674. His estate was
valued at above five thousand pounds, which
was a large fortune for the times. He served
in many public offices. He was in the general
court in 1666. Records show that in 1685
Captain Thomas Bishop lost a ship sailing to
the Barbadoes. He married Margaret ,
and had sons Samuel, John, Thomas Jr., Job
and Nathaniel.
(II) Samuel, son of Thomas Bishop, grad-
uated at Harvard College in 1665, and died
at Ipswich in 1687. He married Hester Cogs-
well, and they had nine children. The widow,
Hester or Esther, married (second) Thomas
Burnham in 1689. Children : Margaret,
born May 17, 1676; Samuel, February 6,
1678-79, mentioned below: John, September
20, 1685. The names and dates of Ijirth of
the other children are not known.
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i)
Bishop, was born February 6, 1678-79. He
lived in Ipswich and Norwich, and died No-
vember 18, 1760. He married. January 2,
1705, Sarah Forbes, born in 1683, died 1759.
They had eleven children, and one, Sarah, who
died young. Children : Thomas, born No-
vember 14, 1706; Samuel, February 2, 1708;
Sarah, March 7, 1710; Esther, January i,
1712; Caleb, March 16, 1715, mentioned be-
low; Joshua, June, 1716; Sarah, ]\Iarch, 1718;
Elizabeth, January 5, 1720; Hannah, August
2, 1722; Ebenezer, November 26. 1725; Su-
sannah, December 26. 1727.
(IV) Caleb, son of Samuel (2) Bishop,
was born March 16, 1715. He married Ke-
ziah Hebbard in 1739. She died 1776. Chil-
dren : Reuben, born November 2, 1740, men-
tioned below; Elijah, June 16, 1742; Mary,
July 18, 1744; Lucy, December 21, 1747.
(V) Reuben, son of Caleb Bishop, was born
November 2, 1740, in Ipswich. He married
his cousin, Hannah Bishop, February 10, 1761.
He was a soldier in the revolutionary war.
1
Jl'n//t(r/i .yer/in/i r/jf'<^/fv/f
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773
A ^ ale CdlcKC class book for 1819. when one
of his ;;r;mils()ns, Dr. Klijali lti>hn|), jjra'lii-
atcd, >iKaks of his Kran<lfathcr "as a laptain
i)f a militia in the Kcvoliitinnary war, who ac-
coiii|)anicfl Arnold's cx|)fiIiiion up tlu- Kcnne-
iifc river towards Otic-hcc, ami was killed Scp-
tcniher 24, 1775." The story of his <lcath, as
told liy his widow to her grandchildren was
.1^ follows: Her luishand. the captain, was
Msited hy one of his soldiers who wa- intoxi-
cate<l. When the captain ordered him back to
his i|iiarters, and shut the door upon him. the
the soldier turned and fired thronph the dixir,
fatally wonndini; the connnander. His widow
liveil to be ninety years old. In the settle-
ment of his estate is fjiven an apprai>al of his
niilit;iry e(|uipnients. and his creditors col-
lected and returne 1 credit in ixmnds. shillings
intl pence for money received for his scrv-
ues in the arniy. liis widow married (scc-
"iid I laptain l'>enjamin linrnham, and had a
on. Ilishop I'uriiham, 17S3. and dau(.;hter,
Hannah, I7«S6, by the second marriage.
Josbtia. Ili^hop's eldest son. was in the revo-
hiiionary war for the last two years, and it
was the mother's care to look after five chil-
dren. She often said: "It took each year
the best yoke of oxen she could raise to buy a
substitute for him, as she could not spare
him." The I'ishop family owned slaves, and
when slavery was abolished they were obli;.;cd
by law to support those too old to care for
themselves. The pillion on which Hannah
I'ishop rode seven miles to church has been
kept, and the stories she use<I to tell her
prandchildreu have been a source of much in-
formation for the family records. Children:
Joshua, born January 14, 1762, mentioned
below; Caleb, March 20. 1764; Cyrus, Janu-
ary 22, i~(\ii: r-'arl, December 29, 170S: Dan-
iel W., Xovenibcr 24, 1770.
(\ n Joshua, son of Reuben Ilishop. was
lx>rn Jaiuiary 14. 17(12. dieil May 4. if^43. He
married (first) Wcltby Adams, born in i7''io,
died Sejitember 5. iH_^i). He niarrjed (sec-
ond) Mehitable \\illiams. Children, by first
wife: Reuben: P.arzillai, mentioned below.
(\'in I'.arzillai. son of Joshua Ilishop,
was Ixirn in 1780. He marrieil Lucy Iliint-
int;to!i. March \f>. 1X15. She was liorn Sep-
tember to. 1704, died January i. 1855, dauRli-
tcr of Ilarnabas and .Xbicjail (Perkins) Hunt-
ington (see Perkins \'i t. liarzillai P.isho]>
was a iiroiiiinent citizen of Lisbon and rep-
resented that town in the ijeneral assembly of
Connecticut ami held other important offices.
Chililren: t. Parzillai Huntington, born
iSi'i; married, .\pril 17. i8j?7. Llizabeth Ly-
dia Allen and went to Illinois: she married
(second) Downs. 2. Xatban Perkins,
mentioned below. 3. Samuel, died in inf.incy
4. Ko^er .\., liorn 1822: marri'
1844, Lucy P. Lee: chililren: '
rissa Huntin).;ton an' ' ' ' ,,1
without issue. 5. I id.
March i(>, 1843, j , iijl-
dren: i. Joseph Huntington 1 rn
1843, married Mary .\lbro; ii. ', cih
lulniunds. married. N'mcmber lu, i!57i, W'y-
nian J. May and lived at Hartford; iii. Lucy
Kdnuinrls, died in infancy. 6. Mary (twin),
born 1828; married Rev. Charles L. .\ycr,
November 27. 1849; children: i. S .ti, U.rn
and died June 3, 1852; ii. 1 lia
Aver. July 11, 1853; iii, John or,
I'ebruarv 15, 1856. : m ;
iv. losepli Iluntiii: .•5.
1858, died March _'j, .
Ayer, July 9, i860, died .Ajird 30.
Rev. lulward Per' ins .\yer, Jidv
married Helen Itishop; vii. 1 . il
Ham .\yer, .Xugust 8. 18/14. '' <J-
18^)5: viii. Mary F.lizalieth "■
14. iSG^i; ix. Cieorge Soule A
1868; .X. Lucy Ku}.;enia Aver.
1870. 7. Klizabeth (twin), Ixirn 1828, died
unmarried. 8. Abigail, bom 1830. died un-
married in 1855.
(\'II1) Nathan Perkins, son of Barzillai
Piishop. was Ixun Februar>- 3. 1818. He
worked on a farm during bi^ lioyluMid and
received his education in the public schools.
He became a merchant in Norwich and was
a well-known and highly respected citizen.
He was a member of the Hroadway Congrega-
tional Church of Norwich. He held many
offices of public and private trust. He was
first selectman of the town of Lislwn and re]v
resented the town in the general assembly in
i8fio. In later life much of his time was de-
voted to the management and settlement of
states. "He was a model citizen and a wel-
coine visitor in many househobls. He tinJc
great delight in home tics, and his life was
an example of the Christian living wliich he
professed." He was prominent in charitable
and cluirch work in Hanover parish. In pol-
itics he was a Republican. He marrie<l (first)
I'ebruary 16, 1840. Nancy Lee. of Hanover,
Connecticut, daughter of William Lee. who
was a son of tlie Rev. .\ndrcw Lee. who
preached in the Hanover parish for more than
fifty years. She was born SeptemlK-r 10. 1817,
died .\pril 2S, \>ii)2. lie married (second)
.April U). i8<>4. Mary Denison, tlangbter of
Jedediah and Joanna (Porter) (Cleveland)
Ensworth. of Canterbury. Connecticut. Her
mother was Ixirn in Sharon. X'ermont. Her
grandfather was Jesse Rnsworth. who mar-
rieil I.otilla Dver, of Canterburv. The Ens-
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worth or Ainsworth (as it is also spelled)
family is one of the oldest and most distin-
guished in the state. Children of first wife :
I. Nathan Lee, born March 6, 1841, men-
tioned below. 2. Lucy Huntington, born Sep-
tember 9, 1842; married, November i, 1865,
Nathan Witter ; children : Herbert Bishop
. Witter, October 23, 1867 ; Nellie B. Witter,
June 5, 1869 ; Edward William Witter, April
15, 1874. 3. Nancy Bingham, January 21,
1845: married, March 10, 1871, Rev. Charles
W. Carey ; children : Frederick \Villiam Carey,
born February 16, 1872; Herbert Bishop
Carey, October 15, 1873 ; Henrietta Wood-
worth Carey, January 31, 1876. 4. Barzillai
Perkins, February 10, 1852 ; married, July
16, 1877, Nellie Kilbourne ; children: Hattie
Kilbourne, April 2, 1880; Roberts Hunting-
ton, June 9, 1884, died October 14, 1909 ;
Marion Lee, May 31, 1886.
(IX) Nathan Lee, son of Nathan Perkins
Bishop, was born March 6, 1841. He was
superintendent of the public schools of Nor-
wich for thirty-two years. He served his
country in the civil war from 1862 to 1865,
enlisting as a private in the Twenty-first Reg-
iment of Connecticut Volunteers. After an
examination by the military board at Wash-
ington, he was commissioned first lieutenant
of the First Regiment, United States colored
troops, and served as adjutant of the regiment
for more than a year. He refused a captain's
commission. He was mustered out at Wash-
ington, in November 1865. He died Octo-
ber II, 1909. He married, November 15,
1869, Julia A. Armstrong. Children : Fannie
Arnold, born October 20, 1S73 : Katharine
Trowbridge, February 27, 1877.
(The Perkins Line).
(I) John Perkins, immigrant ancestor, was
born at Newent, county Gloucester, England,
about 1590, and came to Boston, Massachu-
setts, in the ship "Lion" in FebruaiT, 1631,
with wife Judith and five children. He joined
the church in 1631. He removed to Ipswich
in 1633 and was a deputy to the general court
in 1636. He died in 1654. Children: John,.
Thomas, Jacob, mentioned below, Elizabeth
and ]\Iary, born in England, and Lydia and
Nathaniel, born in Boston.
(II) Jacob, son of John Perkins, was born
in England in 1624, and settled with his fa-
ther in Ipswich, Massachusetts, v\'here he died
January 29, 1701. He married Elizabeth
. Children : Elizabeth born April
I, 1650: John, July 3, 1654: Judith, July 11,
1655; Mary, May 14, 1658: Jacob, August,
1662; Mathew, June 23, 1665: Joseph, men-
tioned below ; Jabez.
(III) Joseph, son of Jacob Perkins, was
born at Ipswich in 1667. He removed to Nor-
wich, Connecticut, where his descendants have
been a prominent family to the present time.
He married Martha Morgan, who died in Oc-
tober 1754, in Norwich. He died in Septem-
ber, 1726. Children: EHzabeth, born No-
vember 5, 1701 ; Joseph, October 25, 1704;
Martha, August 21, 1705; John, October 5,
1709; Jerusha September i 171 1; Matthew,
mentioned below; Deborah (twin), July 20,
1715 ; Ann (twin); Hannah, 1717; Simon,
1720; William, 1722.
(IV) Matthew, son of Joseph Perkins, was
born August 31, 1713, at Norwich, Connecti-
cut. He married, April 19, 1739, Hannah
S-^^feS^' '^o''" 1724- Children, born at Nor-
'wK^lf: I. Ephraim. 2. Joshua, mentioned be-
low. 3. Samuel. 4. Enoch. 5. Nathan, re-
ceived the degree of D. D. and was pastor of
the church at West Hartford for sixty-six
consecutive years ; died January 18, 1838, aged
ninety-two. 6. Frederick, married El-
dridge and followed farming on his father's
homestead"; died at Utica, New York. 7.
Hannah, married Joseph Kirtland. 8. Jeru-
sha, married Jabez Fox. 9. Judah, married
John Staples. 10. Sally, married
McKeown.
(V) Joshua, son of Matthew Perkins, was
born in Lisbon, Connecticut. He married
Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Abigail
(Corning) Bishop. He died November 13,
1832, and she April 6, 1825. Children, born,
at Norwich : Abigail, mentioned below ; Ta-
bitha, married Benjamin Burnham, 3d., of Lis-
bon, Connecticut : Sarah, married Rufus John-
son, M. D., of Canterbury, Connecticut ; Na-
thaniel ; Azariah ; Daniel ; Corning ; Clarissa ;
Charles, married Betsey Payne : children : Jon-
athan, Elizabeth, Joshua, Olive and Abigail.
(VI) Abigail, daughter of Joshua Perkins,
was born at Norwich, November 19, 1765.
She married, November 13, 1788, Barnabas
Huntington, of an old Connecticut family.
They lived at Franklin, Connecticut. He was
born July 7, 1764. Children: i. Clarissa
Huntington, born May 3, 1791 ; married
(first) February 18, 1810, Martin Bottom;
(second) Dr. Rufus Smith, April 18, 1820.
2. Lucy, September 10, 1794; married Barzil-
lai Bishop (see Bishop VII). 3. Barnabas,
June 30, 1800 ; married, October 13, 1823,
Tuliet Morgan.
John Bishop, immigrant an-
BISHOP cestor, was one of twenty-five
who came from England in Rev.
Henry Whitefield's company and one of the
signers of the Plantation Covenant on ship-
C^i C . f^Zo^^-^Ca'^^
COXXECTICLTT
775
board, June i, I'l^Q. lie was one of the men
chosen by tlie planters to purchase lamls at
Menunketiick, now Guilford, from tlie In-
dians : was one of the magistrates of the plan-
tation and these ma<;istrates ha<l supreme
power in all civil matters, not being respon-
sible to England or any other [Kiwer. He
married Aime . He died in rebruary,
i6<)i. His widow died in April, 1676. Chil-
dren : John, mentioned below : Stephen, mar-
ried Tabitha Wilkinson ; iJethia, married
James Steele; daughter, married Hub-
bard.
(II) John (2). son. of John (i) Hishop,
was born aKnit 1625. He marrie<l. December
ij, if>5o. Susannah, daughter of Henry (loKl-
ham. cif Guilford. He ilicd in October, i(>S,?;
she died .November 1, 1703. Children: .Mary,
born September 20, i(>52: John, mentioned be-
low; Susannah, 1657; Klizabeth. n/x); Dan-
iel. I'A^; .Nathaniel, iMrfi; Samuel, October
23, i(>7o; Sarah, January 22, i'>74: .Abigail,
January 25, 1681.
(HI) John (3), son of John (2) Bishop,
was Uirn in 1053 at Guilford, Connecticut.
He marrieil (first) July 3, uySg, Elizabeth
Hitchcock, wlio dietl March 14, 1712; mar-
ried (second) .November 18, 1713. Mary
Johnson, of New Haven. He died in Guil-
ford, November 2-,, 1731. Children: Eliza-
beth, born October 14, 1690; John, August
12, ifio2; Ann, February 13. 1(195; David,
June (>. i'i97, mentioned below : Jonathan, .No-
vemlier S, iU)«j; Mary, December, 1700; De-
borah, I-ebruary 10. 170J; Nathaniel. May 6,
1704: Timothy, 1708. Children of second
wife: William, (October 18, 1714; Enos. May
26, 1717; Esther, February 24, 1719; Mercv.
May 7. 1722.
(I\) David, son of John (3) Bishop, was
born at Guilford. Jiuie C>, 1697. He married.
May 17. 1724, Deborah (or Dorothy?) Stan-
Kn, widow of Thomas Stanley, .'^l^e ilied
February 11. 1775. He died in Guilford, .Au-
gust 20, 1773. Cliildren, born at Guilford:
Deborah, January 17. 1725: Iluldah, .\ugust
5, I72(): David, mentioned below; Chloc. July
'.^' '7.^": Sarah. .August iS, 173(1.
(\) David (2), son of David (1) Bishop,
was Imrn at Guilford. Se|)tember 20, 1728.
He married, April 17, 1753. .Andrea, l)orn
September 12. 1724, daughter of Benjamin
and Andrea Fowler, granddaughter of C'ap-
lain John Fowler, of Preston. Connecticut.
She died January 24. 1815; he died in Guil-
ford. June 25. 1792. Children. Ix^rn at ("tuil-
ford: .\ndrea, February 2i<, 175(1; David. July
29. 1757: Huldah. March 4. 1750; Margaret,
November 10. i7(3o; Jonathan, mentioned be-
low; Jared, October 22. 17CM.
(\'Il Jonathan. =nn -f David (2) Bishop,
was born at fl .bcr 19, i7C»2. He
was a farmer e life, am! owned
mucli land in tnuip 10 He wa nt
and highly respected citizen. 1 v-
olutionary war he served in tli. 1
for coast defense. In pol
eralist ; in religion a (>>•
married. !" '
cember 1 jS,
daughter .,,..,
athan, l)orn Dccemlier 10
ber 22. 1787; Jonath.Tii, ;
(\H) Jonathan '
Bishop, was born at '
(lied March it'>. iSS.- 1 .
education in the jmblic ^^
town, btU \\;is in great nir.
He read nuich and became a man 01 broad
cultuff ;ind general iiifortintion. Iti bis
youii Ml
the ,f
malt . i, ,, .V -
plying between 1-
ern p<jrts. Afi( le-
stead in Guilford and cuuductcd it the re-
mainder of his life. He was burie<1 in (he
East cemetery, Guilford. He \v
gationalist in religion, am! a 1
ixjlitics in later years, a W I > ■ '
days. He married, Jiuic i i-
ria, b(^rn January 30. 170' li
antl Hannah ( Parnul'
was Ijorn January 2.',
1789, Hannah ParnK-ici. m;- ji .>
and .Ann Bishop, were married ^ 1.
i/f>~. Enos Bishop, father of '1 ' : ,
married, December 15, 1742. .Al
Enos Bishop was a son of John
tioned above. Jonatlian I'.i
ond) March iC), 1840, I'aiu u,
lK)rn November 1, 1803, du. ... . ,, ..-.5,
widow of I-'ordyce Dennison and dangliter of
Dan Griswold, of F'sse.x, Connecticut. He
marrie.l ( third t .March 15-, iSdTi, Electa Ma-
ria Stone, lw)rn October 30. 1810. Chil-
dren: .\nn Maria, Iiorn Jan\iary 22. 18^3,
died May 2~. 1S41; h'lisha I h:ipman. men-
tioned below; Richard I.ord, I), in.i.. i -o.
1825, marrie<l Mary (i. Hand. 1-
ber 7, 1889; Hulda Jeanette. A >!,
married George Hull, die«l .April 20. i.S-Sy;
Sopliia I'owler. May 13. 1835. married
Thomas Griswold; .Allen. July • ■^'— ' d
January 13. iS<)i ; son. Jul\. i^ v
2(>, 1839; .Alfred Griswold. CVt' ^j ;
William E., November 3. 1855, married Ellen
A. Stone.
(VIII) Elisha Chapman, son of Jonathan
(2) Bishop, was born .April 10. 1824, at Guil-
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CONNECTICUT
ford. He attended the district schools of his
native town, and assisted his father in the
work of the farm until he was twenty years
old. He then began an apprenticeship at the
machinist's trade and afterward engaged in
business on his own account as a machinist at
Guilford. He started in the old business in
the fields at Titusville, Crawford county,
Pennsylvania, in 1861, and met with substan-
tial success. He returned to Guilford in 1870
and since then has been engaged in farming
on the homestead. In 1874 he built one of the
finest residences in the town. In politics he
was a Republican but in his later years be-
came a Prohibitionist. In 1882 he represented
the town of Guilford in the general assembly.
He was selectman of the town of Guilford
seven years ; member of the school committee,
burgess and warden of the borough. He was
for many years a member of the Congrega-
tional church. He married, July 5, 1846, Char-
lotte Griffin Fowler, born December 15, 1823,
daughter of Lyman and Mary (Griffin) Fow-
ler (see Fowler VII). She died October 6,
1885, and he married (second) Cornelia F.
Fowler, sister of his first wife. Children :
Frederick Chapman, born May 15, 1847, died
July 27, 1847 ; Frederick Chapman, Decem-
ber 23, 1848, graduate of the United States
Military Academy, West Point, lieutenant in
the regular army, died August 26, 1907 ; Rob-
ert Denison, June 14, 1850, died August 15,
1850; Robert Allen, April 16. 1851 ; Edward
Fowler, mentioned below ; Mary Cornelia, Au-
gust 27, 1853, member of Daughters of Amer-
ican Revolution, married ]\Iiles G. \Miite, of
Hartford; Frank Havelock, March 22, 1857;
Ida (twin), April 19, 1858; Eva S. (twin),
married Edward Morris -Leete (see Leete
XIII ) ; Richard Mathew, May 5, 1861, died
September 22, 1861 ; jMarilla Canfield, June
28. 1864; Ernest Smith, :\I. D., October 22,
1866, graduate of Yale College, class of 1889,
physician and surgeon of New York City.
(IX) Edward Fowler, son of Elisha Chap-
man Bishop, was born at Guilford, March 11,
1852. He attended the public schools in Penn-
sylvania and the Titusville, Pennsylvania, high
school. He carried on the blacksmithing busi-
ness in New Haven for a period of twenty-
six years. He retired to devote all his time
to real estate, in which he has large invest-
ments in New Haven and elsewhere. In this
business he has been very successful. His son,
Fred C. Bishop, is associated with him and
has assumed the principal burden of manage-
ment. He is a member of St. Albans Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Guilford ; of
Pulaski Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Fair-
haven ; of Crawford Council, Royal and Se-
lect Masters, of Fairhaven ; New Haven Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, New Haven ;
Pyramid Temple, ]\Iystic Shrine, of Bridge-
port, Connecticut. In religion he is a Con-
gregationalist, and in politics a Republican.
He married (first) February 25, 1878, Anna
Gardner, born December 31, 1856, daughter
of Dyer J. Spencer. He married (second)
May 19, 1897, Edith Emily, born August 2,
1868, daughter of George Ashley, of the town
of Scunthrope, Lincolnshire, England. Her
mother's maiden name was Ellen Matilda No-
ble. Mrs. Bishop came to Canada and subse-
quently to Denver, Colorado. Children of first
wife: I. Edna Fowler, born August 17, 1879;
married, September 6, 1897, Leon Bemis ;
children : Louise Gardner Bemis, born June 2,
1900; Leona Bishop Bemis, i\Iay 21, 1905.
2. Frederick Chapman, born OctolDer 5, 1880;
has taken all the degrees of Free Masonry up
to and including the thirty-second ; married
Mary ^^'are, daughter of John Willais, of Bal-
timore, IMaryland ; is in partnership with his
father in the real estate business. 3. Charles
Edward, January 22, 1884 ; married Elizabeth
Palmer Norman ; child, Dorothy E., born July
18, 1910.
(The Fowler Line).
(III) Abraham Fowler, son of John Fow-
ler (q. v.), was born at Guilford, August 29,
1652, died September 30, 1719. He married,
August 29, 1677, Elizabeth, daughter of
George and Mary (Cruttenden) Bartlett,
born March, 1653, died October 4, 1742.
Children: Abigail, born 1679; Mary, 1681 ;
Abraham, 1683: Ebenezer, 1684, mentioned
below; Daniel, 1686; Josiah, 1688; Caleb,
1690, died in January, 1724; Elizabeth, 1694.
(IV) Ebenezer, son of Abraham Fowler,
was born in Guilford, 1684, died there, No-
vember 28, 1768. He married, i\Iay i, 1717,
Elizabeth Starr, born N^ovember 26, 1695,
died March 26, 1765. Children: Ebenezer,
born January 11, 1719; Nathaniel, March 21,
1721, mentioned below; Huldah, March 6,
172 — ; Caleb, January 21, 1726, died March
17, 1726; Caleb, January 21, 1727; Elizabeth,
May 26, 1732; Lucy, February 19, 1735;
William, August 6. 1738, died December,
1739-
(\ ) Nathaniel, son of Ebenezer Fowler,
was born March 21, 1721, died November 12,
1764. He married, November 2, 1757, Lucy
Chittendon, born March 12, 1735, died March
5, 1807. Children : Nathaniel, born July 14,
1758, mentioned below; Reuben, June 11,
1760; Lucy, September 21. 1761 ; Hannah,
May 8, 1765.
(VD Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (i)
Fowler, was born July 14, 1758, died Feb-
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niary J4, 1X41. lie was a |>rivatc in tlic rev-
olution. 177'J, Captain Hand's company,
Cf'luncl 'I'alcott's rcj^inK-nt. I k- married Rutli,
daiij,diier of Tiniotliy and Ann (Dudley) Ev-
arts. linrn June .V), 17^0. ChiMren: Kutli,
born I'ebruary 11. I7>S.3: Ann, September 12,
1787; Natlianiel. Xovemlier 2\, 1788; Klisha,
April '), 1790: Richard. May 5, 1794: Lyman,
mentioned l)elf>\v.
(\'II) Lyman, son of Nathaniel (2) Fow-
ler, was Imrn January f), iS<X), died February
16, 1877. lie married. Xovembcr 24, 1822,
Mary, dauj,ducr of I'eter ami Folly ( Fair-
child I (iriftin. lx)rn July 27, 1802, died March
f8. 1885. I'eter drillin was the son of I'ctcr
iiifhn, who was a captain in the revolution,
- taken prisoner and diecl aboard the Jer-
prison ship in Xew \'ork harl)or. Chil-
li: Charli ttc G., i)orii December 15. 1823.
rricil Elisha Chapman Hishop (see I'ishop
\ill) : L'ornelia I'.. (October 7, 1826. married
Elisha Chajiman Hishop (sec Bishop X'llI);
Monzo. January 2.^, 1820: Fdwin A.. July 2.
John Collins, the immiijrant
COLLI XS ancestor, was born in Eng-
land about 1^116. According
to tradition be came over with his father.
Lewis Collins, and brothers. Xathan. Albert
and Dexter, who settled in Charlestown. but
the records prove that this must be an error.
John was a shoemaker in I'.oston as early as
1639. Some authorities think he was a
brother of Edward Collins, a very |>rominent
merchant, father of several distinguished sons
and progenitor of the I-'ntield Collins family,
but proof has not been shown. John Collins
was admitted to the I'oston Church. April 4,
1646. He was a member of the IJoston .Artil-
lery Comi)any in 1(144. In 1^140 be barl a
grant of laud at Mount \\'olla<ton (ISrain-
tree) for tliree heads, lie died May 29. i('>70.
and administration was granted to Gideon .\1-
len. His inventory mentions shoeinaker's
stock and tools, three apprentices, etc. Chil-
dren : Ji>hn, mentioned below; Thomas, bap-
tized April 5. 1646. aged seven months: Su-
sanna. ba])tize(l with Tliomas : Elizabeth, baj)-
tized Ajiril (i. 1648. aged eight days.
(in John (2), son of John (i) Collins,
was Iwrn about 1640. He was also a shoe-
maker in Pioston. He removed in 1663 to
Middletown and i(/>S was one of the fountlers
of riranford. Contiecticut. He was one of
the first settlers of Guilford. Connecticut. June
2. ifW). an<l lived there for a time. He died
at Piranford in 1704, He was pro|iosed as a
freeman. October. iT/iQ. at Guilford. He was
school teacher as earlv as 1(182 and as late as
1702. He married (first) Man' Trowbridge,
who died in \(iA. Married (second) Mary
Kingston or Kingsworth. Married (third)
Dorcas, willow of John Taintur. daughter of
Samuel Swain. IbiUlren by first wife: John,
IxJrn I'l'i.^ : Robert, mentioned below; Mary.
( III ) Robert, -on of John (2) Collins, was
iKirn in i(><i7 in I'ranford. He married Lois
I'.urnett. They had a son Robert, mentioned
below.
(I\) Robert (2), son of Robert (i) Col-
lins, was Ixirn in Itranford, probably, alunit
ifiQO. He married Eunice b'oster. They had
a son Edward, mentioned below.
(\') Edward, son of Robert (2) Collins,
was Ijorn about 1715. He married. August 2f>,
1738, Susaimah Peck, of I'ast Hamptim.
.•\mong their children was Daniel, mentioned
below.
(\T) Captain Daniel, son of Edward Col-
lins, was born February 16. 1741. He wa.s a
soldier in the revolution, sergeant in the sec-
ond company. Captain Havens. May (1 to
June 10. 1775; also in 1777 and in I7<)9 on
the Xew Haven alarm. He was in Captain
Xathaniel Chapman's an<l Captain Jalxiz
Wright's companies under Colonel 'I haddeus
Cook at the time of Ledyard's invasion ; in
1780 he was captain of a ctinipany in Colonel
\Villiam W'orthington's regiment stationed at
Guilford to defend the coast. Cajtain Col-
lins received a pension under the act of 1818.
He married. May 17. 1774. Susannah Lyman.
Children: Molly. Susannah, Lucy, .\aron. Ly-
man and Betsey.
(\TI) Lyman, son of Captain Daniel Col-
lins, was born in Meriden, Connecticut, where
he followed farming. He was a soldier in
the war of 1S12. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Salmc>n Carter, a cabinet maker of
\\'allingfi>rd. Children: .\aron Lyman, men-
tioned below: Charles Hinsdale. Iiorn Janu-
ary 14. 1823. grocer and woolen manufac-
turer, married, .\pril. 1852. Sarah C. rlaugh-
ter of James S. and Millicent .\. (Clark)
Brooks, of Meriden. child. Sarah Elizabeth ;
Lucy A., married X. P. Ives.
(Vlin .\aron Lyman, son of Lyman Col-
lins, was born December 22, 1820. in the old
homestead in Meriden. on East Main street
bill. He attended the i>ublic schools, an 1 be-
gan his business career in his native town in
tlie grocery business in partnership with his
brother, Charles Hinsdale Collins. The ven-
ture was successful and Collins Brothers, as
the firm was called, built up a large trade.
In 1854 the firm was dissolved and Mr. Col-
lins became associateil with the cutlery finn
of Pratt. Ropes. Webb & Company at South
Meriden. beginning as traveling salesman and
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becoming a more important factor in the busi-
ness year by year until 1878 when he was
elected president of the Meriden Cutlery
Company. Under his able and wise manage-
ment this business developed and prospered
and he continued at the head of it for a period
of forty years, retiring a short time before
his death. He died at Meriden, March 25,
1903. The concern was established by David
Roper in Maine in 1832, Julius Pratt and
Walter Webb were his partners. In 1846
the business was brought to Meriden and aft-
erward incorporated as the Meriden Cutlery
Company. Mr. Collins had interests also in
other Meriden industries. For a number of
years he was president of the Wilcox Silver
Plate Company, afterward consolidated with
the International Silver Company. He was a
director of the Home National Bank, trustee
of the City Savings Bank, president of the
]\Ieriden Grain and Feed Company. He also
conducted a farm of sixty acres on what is
now Williams avenue. In early life he owned
many acres on East Main street hill, but he
developed the property and sold it in lots.
lie took a keen interest in public affairs and
took an important part in the development of
the city of Meriden, which he saw grow from
a humble village to a thriving municipality.
He was a valued member and generous sup-
porter of the Congregational church and gave
freely to other benevolences and charities.
He commanded the esteem and confidence of
all his townsmen, not only on account of his
substantial success in business but for his
sterling .character and attractive personality.
He married Silvia, daughter of Rev. Ben-
jamin White, of Middlefield, Connecticut.
Children : Charles Lyman, born June 4, 1852,
lives at Clinton; Edward John, March 31,
1856, married Mary Hemmingway, of Me-
riden, child, Elizabeth L. ; Aaron, December
6, 1857 ; Benjamin White, mentioned below ;
Elizabeth, January i, 1862; daughter, Septem-
ber 9, 1863.
(TX) Benjamin White, son of Aaron Ly-
man Collins, was born in the Meriden home-
stead, April I, 1859. He attended the old
Center School, and worked on the farm in
his early youth. His father's large business
interests gave him an excellent opportunity
to acquire a thorough training and before he
came of age he had been given a share of re-
sponsibility such as few young men are trust-
ed with. He had much to do with the man-
agement of the farm and real estate of his
father, and he has always continued active
in agricultural matters, raising much fine
stock and blooded horses ; he has a fine herd
of Jersey cattle. In 1895, ™ partnership with
his father, he bought the hay, grain and feed
business of A. S. Russell on South Colony
street, and in 1897 the concern was incorpo-
rated under its present name, the Meriden
Grain & Feed Company, and since his fa-
ther died he has been president and treasurer.
Under his management the business has in-
creased from year to year. Tlie company does
its own milling and grinding and deals ex-
tensively in flour, seeds and fertilizer as well
as hay, grain and feed. Mr. Collins is a
large stockholder and director of R. D. Pren-
tice & Company, dealers in potatoes, control-
ling twenty-three potato jobbing concerns in
Alaine. He owns much real estate and is one
of the large taxpayers of the city. He is a
director of the Home National Bank. In pol-
itics he is a Republican. He has been a mem-
ber of the board of selectmen and for ten
years of the school committee. He was on
the town hall building committee and one of
the reception committee at the time of the
Meriden Centennial. He is a thirty-second
degree Mason, a member of Center Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; of Keystone
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons : of Hamilton
Council, Royal and Select Masters ; of St.
Elmo Commandery, Knights Templar, and of
the Scottish Rite bodies of New Haven and
Bridgeport. Fie is also a member of Pyra-
mid Temple, Mystic Shrine, and of Alfred
H. Hall Council, Royal Arcanum. He is
treasurer of the Connecticut Agricultural So-
ciety and president of the Meriden Agricul-
tural Society. He is president of the Meriden
Braid Company. In politics he is a Repub-
lican. He belongs to the Country Club of
Meriden and the Home Club. In religion he
is a Congregationalist.
He married, March 5. 1895, Sophia Lovell,
born September 24, 1869, daughter of Lucius
and Martha (Dickerman) Northrop. Their
onl_v child, Betsey, was born October 9. 1901.
Jeremiah Randall, immigrant
RANDALL ancestor, was born in Eng-
land. He and several broth-
ers settled at Greenwich, Connecticut. In
1790 the first federal census shows that Reu-
ben. Nathaniel, Solomon and Timothy Ran-
dall were heads of families at Greenwich with
sons over sixteen and a Widow Elizabeth
Randall, and Widow Amy, all of the first or
second generation probably, while Samuel and
Jeremiah, heads of families, with sons under
sixteen, were doubtless of the second or third
generation. Some of the family settled on
Randall's Island, New York. The name was
usually spelled Rundle in colonial days. Jere-
miah was of Greenwich, June 19, 1778, when
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he buUKht a ilwelliiii; house ami barn at New
Milfonl (I'.riilKC'watcr ), Connecticut, of
James Lockwooil fur one humlred and thirty
pounds, the land lyinij on twth sides of the
hif^hway leadini; to Jolni 1' real's house. Soon
afterward he settled in Bridgewater. Me was
a snidier in 'tlie revolution from tirecnwich.
May-l)ecembcr, 1775. in Captain lh>«mas
Hobby's coni])any (thiril), Colonel UavitI
Waterbury's rcfjiment. Joslnia Kandall was
a ciirporal, i-'li Kandall a >erj,'eant. Abram
Randall drummer and John Randall a i)rivatc
in the same company. Children: Jeremiah J.,
born 1755. mentioned below; Timothy, 1756;
Charles, .May 5, \^J(^^,•. Richard, .Xutjust 25,
1770.
(II) Jeremiah J., son of Jeremiah Randall,
was born in 1755, died November 7, 1S08, at
Briiltjewater. lie married Anne Jessup, who
clieil at Mridgewater, Kebruary 12, 1835, aged
eighty-one year*. Children, born at Mriclge-
water: .\nne, died December 19, i8<i6, aged
eighty-nine; Polly, born January jo. 1780,
died July 3, 1828; Nathaniel, August jo, 1782;
Jonathan J., mentioned below. The order of
birth unknown.
(III) Jonathan Jessup, son of Jeremiah J.
Randall, was Ixirn about 1790 in Bridgewater.
He married .Abigail, daughter of Phineas Gor-
ham. Children, born in Eiridgewater : i.
Jeremiah Ci., .\ugust 23, 1S15; married .\bi-
gail .Mead. 2. Phineas P.., Seiitember 2, 1817;
married Flora Mead. 3. Rachel S., .\ugust
21. iSig. died June 3, 1823. 4. William W.,
December 3, 1823. 5. Sally J., September 21.
1825 ; married Jonah Davidson. 6. Rachel S.,
October 18, 1829; married John Minor. 7.
Charles \V., mentioned below. 8. Edward,
August 18, 1835; married Eliza P.ishop.
(I\') Charles Wesley, son of Jonathan Jes-
sup Randall, was born at Bridgewater, March
8, 1834, died January 23, 1887. He was edu-
cated in the jiublic schools of his native town,
and was a merchant at Southbury, Shelton
and Derby, Connecticut. He married Eliza-
beth .Ann. daughter of Sherman and Sally
(Oakley) Rugglcs. Children: i. Dr. Wil-
lian) Sherman, mentioned below. 2. Grace
Elizabeth, born January 25. 1879. in Shelton,
Connecticut, town of Huntington ; married,
1908. .\llrcd Charles Si^erry. of .Ansonia, Con-
necticut, .md now living at .^lielton: he is
clerk in the office of the Derby Gas Company.
(A) Dr. William Sherman Randall, son
of Charles Wesley Randall, was born at
Brn<iktield. Connecticut, .Aut^ist 5. iSrti. At
an early age he went to live at .'^nuthbury and
afterward at Huntington. Connecticut. He
attended the public schouls of Huntington and
Derbv, Cotuiecticut, and entered the Sheffield
Scientific Schtxjl of Vale University, in i88<>.
graduating in the class of 1883 with tin. Ic
grec of Ph. B. He bc^^an the -imIv <a wa- ::-
cine in the Vale Medical Sd'
vcar entered the CoUeire '■:
Haven Hospital and was an nitcrne liicrc
from December. 1885. to November, iH«/> He
located immediately afterward at 1 ' '
necticut, wliere he has coiitinuetl '
ent time in general practice, m.ii
cialty also of ear, throat ami n^
His practice is widely extended in :
sonia, Huntington, Shelton and all ilii» sec-
tion, and he has offices at Shelton an<l Derby.
He resided in Derby until 1891 when he |ur-
cliased the property at .\'o. 378 Hnwe .1 venue,
residing there until October, 1910, when he
acquired the handsome and comnjodious prop-
erty at No. 241 Coram avenue, where he has
since resided. He is a n)emher of the Fair-
field County Medical Society and was for-
merly its president, of the < ... ^. ,,.
.Medical Society, of the .Xnu:
sociation, and of the Natii i
Society. He is the atteniling otologist and
lar^ngolist of the Gritlin Hospital, and sec-
retary of the medical board of the same insti-
tution for Derby, .Ansonia and Shelton. He
has been an assistant in the Manhattan Eye
and Ear Infirmary of New Vork City. F'rom
time to time he has contributed the results of
his researches and study in various medical
publications, and he ranks among the leaders
of the firofcssion in this state.
Dr. Randall has been honored with many
oflices of trust and responsibility. He was
chairman of the school board of Shelton (Fer-
ry district) for two years, was a member of
the board of burgesses for two years, for sev-
eral years was a director of the Plumb Me-
morial Library, and since 1S03 has been health
oti'icer of the town of Huntinctun. He is an
active member and ex-vice-president nf the
New Haven County Pui)Iic Health .Associa-
tion and takes a keen interest in the subject
of hygiene and public health reizulations. In
1802 and 1893 he served his district in the
general assembly of the state from the town
of Himlington. While in the legislature. Dr.
R.-mdall was a member of the conunittec on
public health and safety and clerk of the same,
also member of the school fund committee.
He was instrumcnt.al in securing the passage
of the .Medical Practice .Act. the lir-i law in
this state reijulating the practice of medicine,
also instrumental in the passage of an act re-
lating: to town ami county health officers.
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which has been eminently successful in bring-
ing about the control of contagious diseases,
and in the advancement of sanitary science.
Dr. Randall is prominent and popular in
many social organizations. He is a member
of King Hiram Lodge, No. 12, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons; Solomon Chapter, No. 3,
Royal Arch JMasons ; Union Council, No. 27,
Royal and Select Masters, of Derby ; Ham-
ilton Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar,
and Pyramid Temple, Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, of Bridgeport. He is senior warden
of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Prot-
estant Episcopal). He is also a member of the
Yale Alumni Association of Fairfield County ;
the Lower Naugatuck Valley University
Club: the Derby and Shelton Board of Trade
and the Business Men's Association of Shel-
ton.
He married, September 7, 1887, Hattie La-
cey Beers, born at Brookfield, Connecticut,
.September 24. 1862, daughter of Daniel G.
and Flarriet Eliza (Starr) Beers. Children:
I. Harold Beers, born in Derby, March 12,
1889, attended the public schools of Shelton
and graduated from the high school ; was spe-
cial student at the Boardman School of New
Haven, where he completed his preparation
for college ; entered Sheffield Scientific School
of Yale in 1908. 2. Helen Starr, born at Shel-
ton, December 30, 1891 : salutatorian of the
class of 19 10, Shelton high school.
Anthony Austin, immigrant an-
ALTSTIN cestor. was born in England,
died in Suffield, Connecticut,
1708. He settled first at Rowley, Massachu-
setts, was admitted a freeman in the Massa-
chusetts Bay Colony in 1669, and later re-
moved to Sufiield, Connecticut. His wife
Esther died in the latter place in 1698. Chil-
dren, born at Rowley: Richard, see forward;
Anthony, 1668; John, 1672. Children, born
in Suffield; Nathaniel, 1678; Elizabeth, 1681,
died young: Elizabeth, 1684: Esther, 16S6.
(H) Captain Richard Austin, son of An-
thony and Esther Austin, was born at Row-
ley, 1666, died in Suffield, October 29. 1773.
He married, January 12, 1698-99, Dorothy
Adams, who died June 26, 1772. at a very ad-
vanced age. Children, born in Suffield : Rich-
ard, October 9, 1699: Dorothy, July 26, 1701 ;
Jacob, June i, 1704; Ebenezer, April 22,
1706; Anna, January 16, 1708-09; Joseph,
see forward; Rebecca, April 16, 1713; Moses,
April 25, 1716; Elias, April 14, 1718.
(HI) Joseph, son of Captain Richard and
Dorothy (Adams) Austin, was born at Suf-
field, January 28, 1710-ir. He married, Ma}-
8, 1740, Abigail Allen, of Suffield. Children :
Caroline, born April 25, 1742; Abigail, No-
vember 15, 1747; Ruth, November 15, 1749;
Joseph, March 16, 1750-51, died in 1753; Jo-
seph, see forward; Benjamin, June 19, 1756;
Tryphene, March 25, 1759: Lurama, June 15,
1761 : Olive, March 12, 1764: Lucv, March
IS 1767.
(IV) Joseph {2), son of Joseph (ij and
Abigail (Allen) Austin, was born at Suffield,
November 3, 1753, and was living there, ac-
cording to the federal census, in 1790. He
was a soldier of the revolutionary war, being
a member of Captain Elihu Kent's company,
on the Lexington alarm. He lived for a time
at New Hartford, Litchfield county, Connecti-
cut, and went to Ohio with some of his sons
about 1832. He married, December 18, 1782,
Hannah Kellogg, born August 4, 1759, admit-
ted to the church at Goshen, Connecticut, in
1800 (see Kellogg VI). Children: Archi-
bald, born at New Hartford, December 29,
1783; Norman, April 12, 1785; Russell, May
17, 1787; Nelson, see forward; and others.
(V) Nelson, son of Joseph (2) and Han-
nah (Kellogg) Austin, was born September
9, 1806, died January 13, 1879. He v^•as a
farmer, and settled in Goshen, Connecticut.
He married, March 27, 1832, Clarena Apley,
born March 22, 1806,' died March 31, 1874.
Children : Theodore W., see forward ; Caro-
line Louisa, lx)rn ]\Iay 31, 1836, died January
21, 1907; Luther Edward, born September 9,
1S38, died July 14, 1841.
(\T) Theodore W., eldest child of Nelson
and Clarena (Apley) Austin, was lnjrn in
Goshen, Connecticut, August 5, 1833, died at
Plymouth, February 23, 1884. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of his native town,
and followed farming there during his youth.
He then engaged in business as the proprietor
of a livery stable at Torrington, and after-
ward located at Plymouth, where he had a
livery stable and a stage business. He was a
prominent citizen and a successful man of
affairs. In politics he was a Democrat, rep-
resenting Goshen in the general assembly of
Connecticut in 1873. He married (first) Sep-
tember 27, 1854, Esther S., born February 17,
1837, died February i. 1866, daughter of
Stephen and Lucinda Roberts, of Goshen.
Children: i. Wilbert N., see forward. 2.
Emma L.. born December 28, 1863: married
Frank L. Bunnell, of Plymouth, now living
in Moline. Illinois : has children : Austin. Ra-
chel and Charles. Mr. Austin married (sec-
ond) October 16, 1867. Elizabeth A., born
May 8, 1841, died November 4. 1876, daugh-
ter of ]\Iarcus Obiatt, of Torrington. Chil-
dren : 3. Elmer Grant, born January 15,
1869; conducts a hotel at Terryville ; married
(A' U4Ay
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1-jiiiiui Miilt/. atiil li.i> liiiir cliildrcn. Mr.
Austin iiKirrii'd (tiiinl) llattic I'oiul.
(\Ill Wilhtrt X.. cKlcst cliil.l nf TIk-o-
dorc \\ . aiul llslhcr S. (KoIktIs) Austin,
was liorn in ( insiu-n, June 23, 1859. lie was
ediKali'd in the pulilic scIikdIs dI tliat town.
Torrin,L;ti>n an<l I'lynunitli, and during; lii>
boyliund worked lur his father in tlie sta^e
business and tlie livery staltlc. I'or seven
years he drove the stage, later |>urchascd the
business, tLK>k a partner, and continued it un-
der the firm name of Austin & (iregory. At
the end oi five years he was the sole proprie-
tor, and now lias a well-etpiipped livery, sale
and exchange stable in Thomaston, and aKo
in Plymouth. In politics he is a Democrat,
has rcpresentcil the town in the general as-
sembly in 1892 and 1808. ami has served on
a number of important committees, lie is a
conunuuicant and senior warden in the Prot-
estant Kpi-copal churdi. and is a member of
Franklin Loilge. lndei)endcnt ( )rder of (Jdd
Fellows, of rhoma>ton. Mr. Austin mar-
ried, December jo, 1882, Minnie Isal>el Mat-
toon, l)orn July 27, 18(11, youngest daughter
of Iharles II. ami lane (Sanfordi Mattoon.
Children; KlKworth Welles, i)orn May 2^,
1891; .\rline. July 8. 1893; Roland Mattoon.
January 2^. 1895.
( The KclloRg Line).
( Iin Deacon Samuel Kellogg, son of Lieu-
tenant Josejili Kellogg ((|. v.), was born at
Hadley, .*septcmiier 28, \f)l't2. Me married at
Hartford, September 22, i(>87. .Sarah, born
Sejitember 19, i(^>(>4. daughter of Deacon John
ami Sar.ih (Watson) Slerrill. of Hartford,
who had been brought u|) in the family of
Colonel Stanley, who rescued her when she
was a child from an overturned kettle of boil-
ing soap.
(IN) Lieutenant Jacob Kellogg, son of
Deacon Samuel ami .Saraii ( Merrill 1 Kellogg,
was Ixvrn Ajril 17. \(*ti), died Jrly 31, 1765.
He married (first) Mary, Ixirn July i, 1705.
died .\ugust 12. 1759. daughter of Captain
Samuel and Mary (Hopkins) Sedgwick, the
former born at Hartford in i(V)7. the latter
liorn at>out 1(170: he niarried (second) 17(10,
Ruth (Lee) Judd. br.ni June 14, 1703. i!ic<l
December 2G. 1794. cfaughter of John and
F.lizabeth (I.oomis) Lee. and widow of Wil-
liam Judd, of Farmingtcin.
(\' ) .Vzariah, sop of Lieutenant Jacob and
Mary ( Se<l.g\vick ) Kellogg, was born in 1733.
died at Harwinton. Xovembcr 5. 1806. lie
married Hannnb. born September 12, 17,^8,
daughter of .\i)ijah and Hannah (Cook) Cat-
lin, of Hartford, the former liorn .\pril 6.
1713. the latter Ixirn at Hartford, June 20,
1717. .\t the time of her death she hail six
chiblren. seventy-six grandchildren and fifty-
three great-granilchiUlren.
(\l) Hannah, daughter of .\zariali and
Hannah (Catlin) Kellogg, married Joseph (2)
.\u-tin ( see .\ustin l\ ).
John Turner, ancestor of tliis
TURN MR branch of the Turner family,
was lx>rn in Haddam, Con-
necticut, in the year 17(18.
(Hi James, son of John Turner, was lK>rn
in Haddam. in 1815. Children: I. John
.\rnold. mentioned below. 2. .Mary P.. Iwrn
in 1843: married Oliver W. Woodworth ; had
no children.
(Ill) John .\rnold, son of James Turner,
was born in Meri<len, Connecticut, March 25,
1839. He was a farmer, hotel keei)cr and
merchant. 1 le was lieutenant and captain for
a time in the civil war in the I'irst C onnccti-
cut Heavy .\rtillery an<l after tlie war was
captain of the Durham Company in the Con-
necticut .National (aiard. Children, born at
Middletown : i. P.i-njamin l-"ranklin, men-
tioned below. 2. Saraii l-'lizabetb, Ixirn .\u-
gust 3, 18(^)6; married Warren L. I'uller, of
.\niesbury. Massachusetts, dealer in clothing ;
children: Helen and Walter I'uller. 3. James
C)lin, January 4, 1872, died .VovemlK-r 22,
1899; married Mattie Clark, of l-"a>t (iranby.
Connecticut: child. < )lin Turner. 5. .\melia
Louise, .\]iril 1874: married ( ieorge ."^elleck,
deceased, of (Greenwich, t'oimecticut : child.
Harold Turner Selleck.
(I\) Hon. I'.enjamin I-'ranklin Turner,
son of John .\rnoIil Turner, was \ynrn
at Midilletown, Connecticut, March 17.
18(0. I le attended the pul)Iic schools of
bis native town, private schools at Dur-
ham, and the Durham Academy and Mid-
dletown high school. He b.ccame a clerk
in bis grandfather's grocery store and
after eight years was admitted to partnership.
.\fter six year> he bec.ime the siL- owner of
tlie business, which he has contimied very
successfidly to the present time. His .son.
I'ranklin (leorgc Turner, is now associated
in business with him. Mr. Turner has been
treasurer and secretary of the Durant school
district, of Mitliletown, for twenty-five years.
He was elected to the state senate in 1908-09
and was member of the committees on con-
tested elections, contingent expenses and ex-
cise, and chairman on committee of mamial
and roll. Mr. Turner is one of the most
prominent Free Masons in the .'stale of Con-
necticut. He is past master <if St. John's
Lotlge, \o. 2; member of Washington Chap-
ter, Roval .\rch Masons, No, 0, of which he
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is past high priest ; member of Cyrene Com-
mandery, Knights Templar, No. 8, and he
has taken all the Scottish Rite degrees in Free
Masonry including the thirty-second. In 1906
the supreme honor in Free jNIasonry in the
state came to him, being elected I\Iost Wor-
shipful Grand Master of Masons in the State
of Connecticut. In politics he is a Democrat.
He married, November 28, 1883, Jennie
Oscella Stevens, born June 6, 1861, daughter
of David K. Stevens, of Killingworth, Con-
necticut, town clerk, judge of probate and
town treasurer. Mrs. Turner is a member of
the Congregational Church. Children: i.
Mima Bailey, born January 3, 1885 ; married
November 28, 1908. 2. Franklin George, Oc-
tober 6, 1886, married Clara, daughter of
George W. and Etta Birdsey ; children : Win-
nifred Turner, and Benjamin Franklin Turner
2d., born in 1910. 3. Clelie Olive, born De-
cember 30, 1887; married, September 7, 1909,
Dayton A. Baldwin, of Worcester, Massachu-
setts. 4. Mildred, died in infancy. 5. Nelson
Benjamin, January 27, 1893.
(The Burr Line).
(I) Benjamin Burr, the immigrant ances-
tor, first appeared as one of the original set-
tlers of Hartford in 1635. His name in the
land division in 1639 as an original propri-
etor and settler, is the first evidence of his
presence in America. It is said that the first
settlers of Hartford were collected from Wa-
tertown, Newton, and other places near Bos-
ton, and so it is certain that he was in Mas-
sachusetts some time before his appearance
in Hartford, and he may have been one of
the eight hundred who came to America with
\\'inthrop"s fleet in June, 1630. He seems to
have been an active, energetic, thorough busi-
ness man, who mingled but little in public af-
fairs. He was the first of his name in Con-
necticut, and was admitted a freeman in 1658.
His allotment in the land division of Hart-
ford in 1693 was six acres. He also drew
eighteen acres in the land division of East
Hartford in 1666. He appears to have been
a thrifty, well-to-do settler, as he owned an-
other house lot in the northwest part of the
village, besides houses and lands at Greenfield,
in Windsor. He also gave his name to one
of the city streets. He died at Hartford,
March 31, 1681. A monument to his memory,
in common with the other original settlers of
Hartford, was erected in the cemetery of the
Central Congregational Church. His will is
dated January 2, 1677. Children: i. Sam-
uel, born in England ; mentioned below. 2.
Thomas, January 26. 1645. '" Hartford. 3.
Mary, January 15, 1656. 4. Hannah.
(II) Samuel, son of Benjamin Burr, was
born in England. He was made freeman at
Hartford in May, 1658, His wife's name is
not found. He died September 29, 1682. He
evidently was a man of great business ability,
and left quite a large estate. All his children
were minors at the time of his death, and by
the provision of his will were to possess the
property as they came of age. Children: i.
Samuel, born 1663. 2. John, 1670. 3. Mary,
1673. 4. Elizabeth, 1675. 5. Jonathan, 1679,
mentioned below.
(III) Jonathan, son of Samuel Burr, was
born in 1679. He settled early in Middletown,
and married Abigail Hubbard, who was born
in t686, daughter of Nathaniel Hubbard, and
granddaughter of George Hubbard, of Mid-
dleto.wn. He died January i, 1735. Children:
I. Mary, born March 18, 1708. 2. Ebenezer,
January 24, 171 1. 3. Jonathan. ]\Iarch 21,
1713. 4. Nathaniel, March 23, 1717; men-
tioned below. 5. Elizabeth, April 23, 1719.
6. Abigail, March 12, 1724. 7. Thankful, twin
of Abigail. 8. Hannah, April 23, 1723.
(I\') Nathaniel, son of Jonathan IBurr, was
born March 23, 1717. The name of his first
wife is unknown. He married (second), Au-
gust- 19, 1743, Sarah Porter, who was born
October 28, 1724. He settled early in Had-
dam, Connecticut* about six miles from his
native town, Middletown. His house stood
on the site of the present Methodist church,
near the residence of his grandson, Mr. Syl-
vester Burr. He was a farmer, a man of ath-
letic build and capable of enduring great hard-
ships. He died in Haddam. September 12,
1802, and was buried in the old burying
ground in the northwestern part of the town,
where his tombstone may still be seen. His
second wife, Sarah, died May 21, 1799, and
was buried near her husband. Children, by
first wife: i. Sarah, born November 27, 1740.
2. Samuel, born August 27, 1741. By second
wife: 3. Benjamin, July 26, 1746. 4. Jo-
seph, August 26, 1748, mentioned below. 5.
Nathaniel, April 17, 1752. 6. Jonathan, April
II, 1756. 7. Martha, January 26, 1759. 8.
Stephen, May 7, 1761. 9. Phebe, November
16. 1765. 10. David, July 2, 1769.
(V) Joseph, son of Nathaniel Burr, was
born August 26, 1748. He married Mary
Nolles, of Haddam. He died in Haddam,
May 25, 1835. His wife Mary died Septem-
ber 5, 1835. He and his fi'.e brothers were
in the revolutionary war. Jonathan Burr was
a captain in the continental army, and after
the war became a farmer in Haddam. Of the
six brothers. Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph, Na-
thaniel, Captain Jonathan, and Stephen, all of
whom served their countrv faithfullv in the
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continental army, Stephen, the youngest,
failed to return to liis family and friends, nor
were any certain tidings of his fate ever re-
ived. Years after, a neighbor claimed to
i\c met and spoken with him while on a ped-
(limg tour in the far South, but his report was
generally discredited ; it is probable that he per-
ished on some one of the battle fields of the
revolution. Children of Joseph Uurr, born in
Haddam: i. Joseph, born 1779; mentioned
below. 2. Mary, who married Mr. Bristle, of
Madison. 3. Martha, who married Mr. Ste-
vens, of Durham.
(\l) Jo>eph (2), son of Josepli ( i) Burr,
\\;is born in 1779, in lla<lflam. Me married,
December 26, 1803, Huldah Bailey, of Had-
dam. He died October 13. 1H44, anti his wife
died .March 30. 1837. Children, bcirn in Had-
dam: I. Aima, born April 2'). 1S06; married
Dan forth Stevens, of Killing worth. Connecti-
cut. 2. Joseph, March 9. 1S08. 3. Esther,
January 31, 1810, married Hiram Hubbard.
4. Pcgg>'. November 12. iSi 1 : married I'rain-
ard I'.ailey; their daughter, Jemimah Bailey,
irried John .Arnold Turner (see Turner).
\sher. September 17, 1813. (>. Sarah, Jan-
IV 16, 1S15: married Lewis l)avis. 7. Ja-
,' lidy 2h,"iSi7. 8. Richard, July 16, 1820.
iluldah. July i, 1822. 10. .\nna, June 6,
---7. II. Henry, .\pril 6, 1829.
William Bunnell, immigrant
BUNNELL ancestor, was liorn in Eng-
land, and settled early in' New
' iven. He married Ann. daughter of Benja-
II W'ilmot, who in his will dated .\ugust 7,
1669, mentions the four children of his (laugh-
ter as heirs of his small estate. Probably both
^^ illiam and .\nn were dead at that time.
ildrcn: Benjamin, mentioned below; Mary,
•n May 4. 1650: Ebenezcr. August 28. 1653;
r other.
til) Benjamin, son of William Bunnell,
was born before 1630. and was admitted a
freeman in 1670. He was in New Haven in
• 1668, but soon afterward settletl at Walling-
ford. He married Mary Brooks. Children :
Rebecca, 1667: Rebecca, February ji. 1^168:
Abner, 1676: Benjamin, mentioned below:
Nathaniel.
(Ill) Sergeant Benjamin (2) Bunnell, son
of Benjamin ( i ) Bunnell, was born about
1680. He married (first") Hannah ,
who died November 16, 1716: (second) Au-
gust 2, 1717, r\Ttience Miles. He was one of
the earliest settlers of New Milford. and died
there .\ugust 20. 1740. Children, born at New
Milford: Rebecca. March 8. 1701. married
Ebenezer Bostwick : Hannah. .April 11. 1702;
Benjamin, .\pril 28. 1704: Solomon. October
2j, 1706; Gershom, mentioned below; Isaac,
August 29, 1713: Keziah, October 17, 17 — .
(1\') Gershom, son of Sergeant Benjamin
(2) I'lUnnell, was Iwrn at New Milford, .May
I, 1708. He married, at Slratfurd. l-'airfield
county, January 17. 1728-29. Mari^aret John-
son. I heir descendant- lived in Danbury and
other towns in l-'airtield county.
(\'I) Joseph, grandson of Gershom Bun-
nell, lived in Danbury, i'airfield county. He
was a soldier in the revolution, a private in
Captain Charles Smith's company. General
\\ aterbury's brigade, and served under Wash-
ington at Phillipsbnrg in 1781. Gershom lUin-
nell, bis brother, was in Danbury in 1790. ac-
cording to the federal census, and had one
son under sixteen and one female in his fam-
ily. .\ Job Bimnell of BnH)klield in the >ame
county is the only other fnund in the census
returns. Joseph must have been omitted or
his name is misspelled. He married, at Wes-
ton, -April 7, 1793, Esther Gilbert. .Among
their children were Beale. Zar anti Giles.
(VH) Beale, son of Joseph Bunnell, was
born in Weston. Connecticut, died at the age
of sixty-si,\ years. He was a carpenter and
builder and resided at Greenfield, Connecticut.
He married Anna, daughter of David and
Deborah (Buckley) Davis. Her father was
the eldest of eight children : David. Joseph,
Samuel, Ann, Jeremiah. Daniel, Doctor and
Sally Davis, and he lived to the age of one
humlred and one years. .All the men of this
family were more than six feet in height.
Children of Beale and .Anna Bunnell : Samuel
Gilbert, .Anna Davis. Harriet B., Sarah H.,
Elizabeth B.. Beale D., John W., William H.,
mentioned below, George B. and Joseph E.
(\III) William Henry, son of Beale Bun-
nell, was Ixirn May 30. 1833, at what is known
as Hull's Farms. Greenfield, Connecticut. His
schooling was limited to the winter terms of
the district school. Until he was nineteen he
assisted bis- father on the farm and at his
trade. He was then apprenticed to the car-
riage-maker's trade in the shop of Charles
Curtis, at Stratford. On the memorable morn-
ing of the Norwalk disaster on the New A'orlr,
New Haven & Hartford railroad in May,
1853. he left Stratford and found employment
as an apprentice in the carriage-making busi-
ness of Z. M. Miller. Bridgeport, a branch of
the firm of Thompson & U'ooil, later Hincks
& Johnson, Bfoad street. He later entered the
employ of T. C. Robbins. carriage builder, at
Wolcottville. Connecticut, as a journeyman.
He was persuaded by his brother, while on a
visit to the farm. July 4. 1834. to return to
the |iomestead. but in the following month
he returned to Bridgeport to work for Smith
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& IJarlijw, carriage-wood benders. Afterward
he returned home to assist his brother in build-
ing a house, and in January following entered
the employ of Thomas & Wood, carriage
makers. In ]\Iay, 1856, he returned to Smith
& Barlow's shop and continued until he aban-
doned his trade, January i, 1862. He was
appointed by the board of selectmen super-
intendent of the poor of the town, and held
this office four years. He then engaged in
the real estate and building business in part-
nership with his father-in-law, Edward C.
Foster. In the following autumn he went to
Westport, Connecticut, where he built a house,
and for three years was engaged in the build-
ing and contracting business. His return to
public office was accidental and unexpected.
One Sunday night he received a message
from the Bridgeport selectmen that the keeper
of the town farm had died suddenly and re-
quested him to call the following morning.
He responded and made a contract with the
town to take charge of the poor, and he con-
tinued under this contract for fourteen years.
The old town farms had been sold to P. T.
Earnum, the show man, and a new farm
known as the Lake View farm purchased and
new buildings erected on the present location
in the north part of the town. At the expira-
tion of his contract, April i, 1884, Mr. Bun-
nell was engaged under salary to continue in
his position as superintendent of the poor,
and he remained in the service of the city until
April I, 1896. From that time until his death
he devoted himself to the real estate business,
having an office in Bridgeport.
In politics he was Independent, and though
having no party ties, was called to various
offices of trust and honor. In his younger
days he was a member of the hook and ladder
company. Reindeer Hose Company, of the
\'olunteer Fire Department of Bridgeport. He
served for five years on the school committee
of Westport: he was a justice of the peace for
six years ; was a member of the court of
burgesses for two years ; warden two years,
and for two years was a member of the board
of assessors of Bridgeport and two years a
member of the board of relief. In West
Stratford, which was annexed to the city of
Bridgeport in 1889, he lived- many years. He
was a prominent member of St. John's Lodge,
Free and Accepted ^Masons ; Jerusalem Chap-
ter, Royal .A-rch Masons ; Hamilton Command-
ery. Knights Templar, and Raymond Temple,
M}'stic Shrine. He was a member of the
board of associated charities, and at the time
of his retirement as suj)erintendent was ap-
pointed by the county commissioners one of
the visitors to the Children's Home, Norwalk.
Few men in Bridgeport showed more earnest
public spirit and accomplished more for the
public welfare than he. He was popular and
possessed the confidence and respect of all
classes in the city. Of magnificent phvsique,
attractive personality and kindly manner, he
made friends readily and was beloved by all
who knew him. He and his wife were mem-
bers of the Newfield Methodist Episcopal
Church, in which he held all the offices, and
he was one of its staunchest supports during
his active life. He resided at No. 432 Sea-
view Avenue, Bridgeport, where his death oc-
curred November 20, 1908.
Mr. Bunnell married, November 20, 1856,
Julia G., daughter of Edward C. and Eliza
(Dobbs) Foster, of Danbury. Her father was
of an old New England family of English an-
cestry ; he came to Bridgeport in 1840, and
died there at the age of seventy-six, a car-
penter by trade. Her mother, who bore him
six children, died aged eighty-eight years.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Bunnell : i. William
H., a physician, practicing in Bridgeport ; mar-
ried ^iiargaret Bogart ; children: Clara, Alice,
Harold. 2. Sarah J., married Meriden Nash,
son of Rev. Albert Nash, of the Methodist
church: she died in 1885: they had one son,
William Albert, married Alice Burkhardt. 3.
Edward, died aged four years. 4. Julia A.,
married Frank \V. Hawley, of Hartford: chil-
William Albert, married Alice Burkhardt. 3.
Dr. George, now an assistant at Sheldrake-on-
Cayuga, New York. 6. and 7. Edward and
Frederick, twins, died young. 8. Mary Grace,
married Stephen A. Norton : resides at Utica,
New York: children: Richard, William. 9.
Francis G., a machinist, residing at Bridge-
port.
John Hurd, immigrant ancestor,.
HURD came first to Windsor, Connecti-
cut, and was among the first set-
tlers of Stratford, in 1639. He married, De-
cember 15, 1662, Sarah, daughter of John
Thompson, who is supposed to have been his
second wife. She married (second) Thomas
Barnum, of Danbury, Connecticut. His will
was dated February 18, 1679. and the inven-
tory of his estate, ^larch 4, 1681-82, amounted
to five hundred and four pounds ten shillings.
According to the inscription on his gravestone-
he was sixty-eight years old when he died.
He mentioned in his will two sons, John and
Isaac, his wife Sarah, and his daughters,
though not by name. To the latter he gave
all his land on White Hill to be divided among
them. He also mentioned Mary, wife of John
Bennett, and Abigail, wife of Samuel Bissell,
probably daughters by his first wife. He had
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a brother Ailainr'Tlic name Hiinl i> vari-
ously spcllcil Heard, " Herd, Hard, Hurd,
Hoord, Ilunl. Children: J<.>hn, born Decem-
ber 16, 1664, mentioned beluw; Sarah, I'cb-
ruary, 1665; Hannah, September. 1667; Isaac,
June 2, iCtdg; Jacob, November 16, 1671, died
younp; Esther, Auj^ust 20, 1676; Abigail, Feb-
ruary 12, 1679, died in 1683; Marv. August
15, 1683.
(H) John (2), son of John (i) Hurd. was
born December 16, 1664. He lived in Strat-
ford village, and died March 7, 1731. His
will was dated March 4, 1731-32. and proved
'iich 16. 1731-32. He married. January 5,
,-'. .Abigail W'allis, who died August 28,
V -S. Children: Jonathan, born Ajiril 2j,
1694; Hester. May 9, i6<;6; John. I'ebruary
I (. 17(X): Ebcnezer. .\pril 7, 1703; Nathan.
lober II. 1705; Jabez, March 12, 1707-08;
igail. I\'l)ruary 8, 1710-11; Enos. March
12. 1713: Ephraim, September 20. 1715.
( III ) John (3). son of John (2) Hurd. was
burn I'ehruary 14. 1700. He married Sarah
. Children: Gillead. born September 9,
1733. mentioned below; Rhoda. ()ct'>!ier 18,
1735; Levi, October i. 1738; Rhoda. August
26, 1742.
( IV) Gillead or "Gillard," son of John (3)
Hurd. was born September 9. 1733. lie mar-
ried Elizabeth . Children : \\i Icott,
born I7'>4; Silas, February 12. i7'V3: John M..
November 30, 1769; Truman, February 2^,
1772; Daniel, February 16, 1774: Sarah. Octo-
ber 15. i77'». Gilleail Hiird was living in 1790
at Stratford, according to the first federal
census, ami had three males over sixteen and
one female in his family at that time.
(V) Truman, son of Gillead or Gillard
Hurd. was born at Stratford. February 23.
1772. Son, Ebenezer.
(\"I) Ebenezer, son of Truman Hurd, was
born in Stratford. He married Frances
Wheeler. ( )nly child. Truman Ebenezer.
(\'II) Truman Ebenezer. son of Ebenezer
Hurd. was horn at Southbury, Connecticut,
in 1847, died in 1888. He was educated in
the conunon schools. For iiiany years he was
a m;mutacturer of pajier in Southbury. He
married Frances Eliza Wheeler. Ixirn at
Southbury in 1852. Children: Mary Frances,
born i8f>7. married Louis A. Mansfield in
August. 1900; Katherinc Eliza, born 1868.
unmarried: Henry Baldwin Harrison, men-
tioned Ih'Iow.
(\'IIh Henry Baldwin Harrison, son of
Truman F.bcnezer Hurd. was born at South-
bury. July 22, 18(19. He attended the public
schools of his native town, and later grad-
uated from the high school of New Haven.
He took up the study of medicine at the Yale
Medical School in 1890, but did not graduate.
He was employcfl for a tir ' firm of
.•\ustiii .Man>(ield & .Son. b , .W-w
Haven. Sub".ei|uently he v. rl with
the Derby Lumber Company, of Derby, Con-
necticut, cf which he became the treasurer
and general manager, and continued with this
concern until i9o<j. He then conducted a
wholesale lumber Ini ■ ''-r his own
name for a time in n. Then he
formed the Mil ford 1 ■ >mi)any and
conducted it several ycais. He is treasurer
and general manager of the New England
Stone Com|>any at tli line, and this
concern manulacturi inc. He is
a member of the <Ji; Uib of New
Haven; of Hiran) I. 1. of New-
Haven ; of Franklin > •'. 17, Royal
Arch Masons; Harnioir, Lwuiicd. Rnyal and
Select Masters, of New Haven: .New Haven
Coniniandery. No. 2, Knights Tc: ' ' '.;c
of Perfection. New Haven (.1 c
Croi.v and Elm City Council. I'm . '"
salcm ; Lafayette Court of New Haven. He
has taken all the degrees of Scottish Rite Ma-
sonry, including the thirty-second. He i> a
member of St. Thomas Protestant Ei)isco]>al
Church and has been a vestryman for a num-
ber of years. He is immarried.
John Hubbcrd, immigrant
HL'BBlvRD ancestor, wa^ prohrtblv horn
in F.i: ■ ' ! e
related to the Hingli
He was an inhabitaiii >■■... "ii-
setts, as early as 1670. He removed to Kox-
bury and served in King Philip's war in Cap-
tain Isaac Johnson's com]3any, 1675-76. He
married Rebecca Wells. She joined the
church February 17. 1683. He went to Wood-
stock. Connecticut (New Roxbury or .Mashe-
niequil), settled by forty Roxbury -families
who left Roxbury, July 21. i6S<'>. John Hub-
bard was an original proprietor. Chiliren of
John antl Rebecca Hubbard: Rachel, baptized
.\pril 13. 1684; Rebecca, baptized .\pril 13,
1684; Sarah. September 21. 16S4: Mary, bap-
tized -April II, 1(186: John, mentioned Ik'Iow.
(II) John (2). son of John (i) Hubbcrd.
was born at Woodstock. May 3, 16S9. died
after 1731. He was one of the petitioners for
the charter of the town of Pom fret, set off
from Woodstock, dated in 1713. He bought
the homestead of John .\dams in 1710. It is
located between Canterbury and Mortlake. He
married Elizabeth —. Children, born at
Wooilstock : Benjamin: Joseph, mentioned
below ; Jonas, died in Canterbury ; Elizabeth,
died September 23. 1754: Timothy, died
March 9. 1758.
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(III) Joseph, son of John (2) Hubberd,
was born at Pomfret. Connecticut, about
1720. He removed to Salisbury, Connecticut,
and located at Tory Hill. He bought a farm
of one hundred and forty-five acres, four-
teenth lot, near Middle Pond in Salisbury of
John and Experience Palmer for three hun-
dred pounds sterling, June 18, 1774, by war-
rantee deed (see Salisbury land records, vol.
7, p. 102). Pie was a Loyalist during the
revolution, though a personal friend of Gen-
eral Israel Putnam, his neighbor. He mar-
ried at Pomfret, July 5, 1744, Deborah, daugh-
ter of Joseph Cleveland (see Cleveland).
Children : Luther, Jesse, Olive, Sybil, Par-
ley, mentioned below.
(IV) Parley, son of Joseph Hubberd, was
born in Pomfret about 1767, died in 1848.
He removed to Salisbury with his parents in
1781. He was a large and successful farmer,
owning the land where the Hotchkiss School
is located at Lakeville, Connecticut. He was
captain in the state militia. He married Anna,
daughter of John and Sarah (Landon) Cat-
lin, of Salisbury. Children: i. Hiram Bos-
worth, born 1796, died March 21, 1869; mar-
ried Polly Dean, of Canaan. 2. Joseph Au-
gustus, born 1800, died 1877, at Honesdale,
\\'ayne county, Pennsylvania : married Daphne
Bushnell. 3. John Henry, mentioned below.
4. Alexander, born 1806, died June, 1881 ;
married Mandane Van Deusen ; children:
Jane, James, John Henry, Edwin, Anna.
(V) Hon. John Henry Hubberd, son of
Parley Hubberd, was born in Salisbury. March
24, 1804, died July 30, 1872, in Litchfield.
He received a good education in the district
schools and became especially proficient in
mathematics and Latin. He was qualified to
teach school at the age of fifteen )'ears. He
was a lifelong student, however, and a man
of many attainments. He began to study law
in the office of Hon. Elisha Sterling, of Salis-
bury, and was admitted to the bar before he
was twenty-two years old. He established
himself in the practice of his profession at
Lakeville, Connecticut, and resided there for
thirty years. In 1847-49 he was a state sen-
ator from the seventeenth district. He was
appointed state attorney for Litchfield county
in 1849 and held the oflice four years. In
politics he was originally a Whig, afterward
a Republican and a leader of his party. He
gave earnest support to the government dur-
ing the civil war and helpted to recruit the
Thirteenth and Niifeteenth regiments. In
1863 he was elected to the thirty-eighth con-
gress and re-elected to congress in 1865 from
the fourth district. He served his district
with ability and distinction. He was an able
and successful lawyer and continued in prac-
tice until shortly before his death. The fol-
lowing tribute by his neighbor and friend,
Plon. Henry B. Graves, was published in a
Litchfield newspaper at the time of his death :
"The Hon. John H. Hubberd died in this vil-
lage on the 30th of July, 1872. The deceased
was born in Salisbury in November, 1804, and
was therefore at his death past sixty-seven
years of age. He was admitted to the Litch-
field county bar in April, 1826, and soon after
commenced practicing law in his native town,
in the village of Lakeville, where he con-
tinued in a very successful business until about
seventeen years since, when he removed to
Litchfield. Here he was constantly occupied
in his profession, being engaged in most of
the important cases tried in our higher courts
until his election to Congress in 1863 from
this district. He was again returned to Con-
gress in 1865. Plaving served his four years
in Congress, he again returned to the prac-
tice of law and continued it till within a few
weeks of his death. He was very industrious,
energetic and persevering; never discouraged
by an adverse decision, where there was an
opportunity to pursue the cause of his client
further, and was often victorious in the court
of review, where he had been overruled in
the inferior courts. In the course of his pro-
fessional career he had a lucrative practice
and for many years was one of the more
prominent lawyers in this county. He served
five years as State Attorney of the county, in
which position he gave general satisfaction ;
he was also State Senator from the 17th dis-
trict two terms and served in various other
public relations and in all of them acquitted
himself with honor. He was a good citizen;
liberal, kind and generous to the poor, and
always ready to contribute his full share to
all objects of worthy charity. As a husband
and parent he could not do enough for those
so nearly connected to him and his aft'ections
knew no bounds or limit. The deceased leaves
a widow, three sons and a daughter surviving
him, to mourn his loss. Though his death had
been expected for several days, owing to the
character of his disease, yet our community
was not prepared to meet with so great an
affliction and deeply sympathize with the
stricken family in their great sorrow."
He married (first) Julia A. Dodge. He
married (second) September 18. 1855, Abby
Jane Wells, born at Litchfield, in 1826, died
September 30, 1908, daughter of Tomlinson
and Electa (Smith) Wells, granddaughter of
Philip and Elizabeth (Tomlinson) Wells.
Hezekiah Wells, father of Philip, was son of
Thomas, grandson of John, and great-grand-
^^3-t^ 04- !)<iLi^-u-C^aS^
Qal^^A^ J. ^iuM^<jaA.
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787
son ot John Wclh, i>i Mrati.inl, I Diinccticut.
Jolin, la>t niL-ntioncd, was sun <>l Governor
Thomas Wells, of whom a sketch is j^iven
elscwlierc in this work. Chihlrcn: 1. John
'romlinson, mentioned below. 2. riiilip Par-
ley (twin I, June 9, 1859, cashier of the Litch-
Held .National Hank; married, .May 9, 1896,
Harriet .\. Cook, of I.owell, Massachusetts;
children: Miriam, horn I'ehruary 21, 1897;
Harriet, May 13. i<>o-». 3. .\nna Klecta
(twin), died Decemher II, 1909. 4. Frank
\\ells. Anjiust 2. iS'15: attorney, le(4al ad-
viser of the New York .Street Railway : mar-
ried. Novenilier 18, i8<<i, < irace \\ . Keese. of
Brooklyn. New York. Chihlren : tjrace
Louise, liorn March iS. 1893; W.ildron Wells.
July 10. i8i/>.
(\'I( Jolin Tomlinson, son of Hon. John
Henry Huhherd. was horn in Litchlielil, .No-
vemher 3. 1856. He attended the public
schools tliere and i^raduated from Yale Col-
IcRc with the degree of .A.I'., in the class of
1880 and from the Yale Law School in the
class of 1883. He was admitted to the bar in
1883. He heyan to practice law in I^keville,
but s«.x>n after located at Litchtield. where he
has always rcside<l. lie has been a menil)er
of the bar examinin!.j committee since it was
formed. He represented the town in the gen-
eral assembly in i<x>i-o3 an»l served on the
judiciary committee. He is now serving his
second term as judge of probate of the Litch-
field district, r.esides an extensive law prac-
tice, he has a real estate business. He is a
director in the Litchfield Mutual Insurance
Company and trustee of the Litchfield Sav-
ings I'.ank. He is jiresident of the Lcho Farm
Company. In religion he is an Lpiscopalian.
He is unmarrieil.
(The Clcvclnnd I.inc).
(II ) Josiah Cleveland, son of Moses Cleve-
land (q. v.). was I)orn in W'oburn. Massa-
chusetts, February 26, \()iih-Uj, died at Can-
terbury, Connecticut, .\pril 26, 1709. He
married, at Chelmsford. .Massachusetts, about
16S0. Mary, born there May 8, i(i<)7. died at
Canteriuiry. July 20. 1743, tiaugbtcr of John
and Mary Bates. He served in the Indian
wars, 1(188-89, probably in Maine. He settlc<l
in Chelmsford in i'>8<). ,ns did his brotlier
Samuel. In i(h73 he followed Sauuiel to
Plainticld. the part afterwards Canterbury,
when there was only one white or English
family in the town, and the west side of the
Quinuebaug river was first settled, 1(190. In
ifio8 be, Sanuiel and others were made
trustee^ of lands west of the Quinue-
baug river by ( hvaneco, chief of the Mahi-
canni nr \!i ilu-'juw riiiil in Hmii hr i.iir-
chasi-d one lumdred .
(Jwaueco, "ihen bein
his l.r.tl,.-, ,,„l ,.<1„ ■
9. ■'-
and
ten "oi ilic ol.k.-.i aud mo^ii icaiiviicil luhalu
tants" of the place who were ap|>ointed to
assume the jurisdiction of their territory, and
re|M.rtc.l June 13. 1701, the result, lieccm-
ber 24, 1702, Samuel. Josiah and Isaac were
among the freeholders and proprietors of
I'lainlield applying for a separate township,
and it was divided (Jctol)er, 1703. and the
west siile named Canterbury. \\ idow Cleve-
land was a<lmitted t ''■ '■■•' ' ' 15,
1712. She married \,
January 22, 1721-22. t
well, being his second \\\ic, lie died before
1743. She died July 20, 174V <'luldron: \n-
siali, b<jrn Octobir 7. i'" ' ' '
Joseph, June 13, 1692,
Mary, March 7, 1^)94, at '
June 28. i(n)<). at Chelmsfor<l; Jonathan, Iwrn
at Chelmsford, died there, .\j)ril 5, l<)98;
Henry, Decemlier 22. i(»f): Jonathan, alx>ut
1701, died at Canterbury, July 15, 1713; Ra-
chel, about 1703, at Canterbury; Lydia. De-
cember 7, 1704, at Canterbury: Deliverance
(son), July 13. 1707. at Canterbury; .\biel or
.\bigail, < Jctober 9, 1709. at Canterbury.
(Ill I Joseph, son of Josiah Cleveland, was
born at Ihelmsford. June 13. \(>^2. died at
Canterbury, May 11 or 12, 1752. Ca|>tain
Joseph Cleveland was a prominent man in
Canterbury and active in all jiublic m;ittcrs.
He was one of the wealthy men of the town.
He and his wife Delxjrali entereil covenant
July 6, 1710. On Decemlier 20. 1720, he was
chosen grand juryman. He was in the gen-
eral assembl) in May, 1731. He was captain
of the train baud of Canterbury, romfret and
Mortlake, ap|winted by the assembly in (Jcto-
bcr, 1733. He married (first) at Canterbury,
May 19. 1717. Deborah Huttcrfield. Kirn at
Chelmsford, .\ugust 20, 1(187. dicil at Canter-
bury, November 10 or 14, 1724, daughter of
Samuel and Mary lUitterfield. He married
(second), June 26, 1725, .Mary, daughter of
John \\'oo<lward. Benjamin Buttcrfield, father
of Samuel lUitterfield, was Ixirn in Lngland,
and was in Charlestown. Massachusetts, in
1(138. and subscribed to town orders in W'o-
burn, Massachusetts, in 1640: was in Xaam-
keek, Chelmsford, in 1634: he married (first)
Ann and had son Samuel, liorn in
W'oburn, May 17. 1647. who married Mary
and had daughter Delmrah. Children :
Jonas, iKim Octolier i(>. 1718; Sybil, January
7, 1720: John. December 31, 1721 : DelKirab,
ViiL'ii^t II i~j() ui.irru'il. .(t ('.ititfiliiirx liilv
788
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5, 1/44, Joseph Hubberd (see Hubberd III) ;
Bridget, August 12, 1728; Joseph, January 19,
1730; Jonathan, November 24, 1737; Jesse,
October 20, 1739.
Dr. WiUiam James Butler, a
CUTLER leading physician of New Ha-
ven is of Irish ancestry. His
father, Thomas Butler, was born in Ireland in
1845 and came to this country at the age of
fifteen. He made his home in Hartford, Con-
necticut. He married Bridget Baker, also a
native of Ireland, who came with her parents
to America in 1852, when she was about two
years old. Children : Thomas ; Francis ; Mar-
garet ; William James, mentioned below ; Cath-
erine C, born June 20, 1876, unmarried.
(II) Dr. William James, son of Thomas
Butler, was born at Hartford, October 16,
1870. He attended the public schools of his
native city and graduated from the high
school. In 1887 he entered Niagara College,
near Buffalo, New York, and was graduated
in the class of 1891. In 1891 and 1892 he
attended medical lectures and visited many of
the great hospitals of London, Berlin and
Dublin. He began the real study of his pro-
fession in the Long Island College Hospital
of New York City and was graduated with
the degree of M. D. in 1895. He began to
practice at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. After
about a year there he came to New Haven, in
April, 1896, and has been in general practice
as a physician and surgeon in that city ever
since. From 1896 to 1904 he was police sur-
geon of the city of New Haven. He was ap-
pointed health commissioner of New Haven
in 1908 for a term of five years. He is a mem-
ber of the staff of St. Raphael's Hospital of
New Haven ; examining surgeon for a num-
ber of insurance companies. In politics he is
a Democrat. He has contributed articles of
value to the medical publications and press
from time to time. He is a member of the
Connecticut State Medical Society, the New
Haven City and County Medical Society, the
American Medical Association, the Union
League Club of New Haven, the New Llaven
Gentlemen's Driving Club, and the Second
Company, Governor's Foot Guards of New
Haven. Honorary member of the Celtic
Medical Society of Connecticut, Chamber of
Commerce of New Haven, New Flaven Lodge
of Elks and several fraternal societies ; among
some are the Woodmen of the World, Hepta-
sophs, Maccabees, and Foresters. He is also
a director in the Organized Charities of New
Haven.
Dr. Butler is unmarried. His office is at
712 Howard avenue, New Haven.
Robert Dunbar, immigrant an-
DUNBAR cestor, was born in Scotland,
in 1630. His name is believed
to have been derived from the ancient Scot-
tish city of the same name. It is also a gen-
eral belief in the family that he was descend-
ant of George, Earl Dunbar, in the regular
line. Ninian Dunbar, founder of the Dunbar
family of Grange Hill, born in 1575, had a
son, Robert, who is supposed to have been
the Robert mentioned above. Robert Dunbar,
the immigrant, married Rose , and in
1655 settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. It
was the general opinion that he brought with
him a considerable sum of money to begin
life in the new country, inasmuch as for years
there were but two men in the town who paid
a higher tax than he. He died October 5,
1693, and his wife, November 10, 1700. Chil-
dren, born in Hingham: John, December i,
1657, mentioned below; Mary, October 25,
1660: Joseph, March 13, 1662; James, June
I, 1664; Robert Jr., September 6, 1666: Peter,
November i, 1668; Joshua, October 6, 1670;
Hannah.
(II) John, son of Robert Dunbar, was born
in Hingham, December i, 1657. He married
(first), July 4, 1679, Mattithiah, daughter of
George and Catherine Aldridge, of Dorches-
ter, Massachusetts. He married (second),
July 24, 1700, Elizabeth Beecher, of New
Haven, Connecticut. After his death his sec-
ond wife willed all her property to her own
children, and cut off altogether the children of
the first marriage. In 1697 or 1698 he re- ■
moved to New Haven. Children of first wife :
Susanna; Lydia; John, mentioned below.
Children of second wife: Elizabeth, born
March 27, 1701 ; James (twin). June 28, 1703,
died young; Joseph (twin), died young; Jo-
seph, October 9, 1704; James, April 30, 1708;
Lydia, October i, 1714; Ebenezer, November
9, 1718.
(HI) John (2), son of John (i) Dunbar,
married, June 14, 1716, Elizabeth Fenn, born
April 29, 1692, daughter of Edward and Mary
(Thorpe) Fenn, who were married Novem-
ber 15, 1688. She died in 1751. John Dun-
bar died May 13, 1746. Children: Mary, born
September 26, 1717 ; Sarah, February 7, 17/9;
Edward, April- 9, 1722; John, September 28,
1724, mentioned below; Samuel, December 18,
1726: Elizabeth, May 5, 1729: Hannah, April
20, 1733. '
(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Dunbar,
was born September 28, 1724, in Wallingford,
Connecticut. He married Temperance Hall,
born in Wallingford, April 16, 1727, died May
26, 1770. Her husband died before that date,
and both were buried in Plvmouth, Connecti-
auiricsi SiJi c
/ ) ' — ^ V \
CONNECTICUT
cut. Diiriiif,' tlic revolution lie was one of
three commis>aries in W'aterliury, chosen to
furnish su|>plies to the continental army. Chil-
dren : Miles, incntioneil below ; .\Io>es ; Dinah ;
Joel ; John : Aaron ; Joel ; Lucina ; John ;
Charity; Atla, died ApriT 12, 181 J ; ^follic ;
David (twin), born May 26, 1770; Jonathan
(twin I.
(\') Miles, son of John (3) Dunbar, was
born in \\ allinj^ford or IMyinouth, but re-
moved to Oblontr, New York, prior to 1818.
He was a lite major during; the revolution;
enlisted March 31. 1777, at \\ aterbnry, Con-
necticut ; served until discharged March 30,
17S0, in New York. He liecamc overtaxed
at the battle of Monmouth, and on his way
home was taken sick at Newtown, .\ew York.
His expenso at this time were paid by the
state ot New York, .iml the -same state after-
wards, in iSiS, ])cnsioneil him. .Alter the war
he studied law with Es<|uire lUitler, and fol-
lowed that vocation the remainder of his life.
In 1776 he joined the l'oni;rc).;ational church
at Plymouth, lie marrietl. May 1. 1779, I ry-
phose, daughter of Isaac and Rebecca Kut-
ler. She was born in W aterluiry, Cnnnecticut.
May 15, I75'>. Children: l>aial); Clarissa;
John; Lucrelia; lUiller, mentioned below;
Jenas ; (.alvin ; Miles.
(\'I) Hutler, sou of .Miles Dunbar, was
born l"ebruary I. 1791. in I'lymoutb. lie was
a musician in the war of 1812 under John
P.uckingham. and later was in the clock busi-
ness with Titus .Merriam. When quite young
he removed to the west and became a farmer.
He was actively connected with the Congre-
gational church in his new home, Monroe
towiisliip, Mahaska county, Iowa, and for
manv vears before h\> death bore the title of
"Father Dunbar." He died October 18, 1868.
He married Lucina, daughter of Thomas
Wclcher and Lucina (Dunbar) Painter, the
latter a sister of his father. Children: Wil-
liam P.utler, born June 28, 181 1; Edward
Lucien. .\pril 23. 1S15, mentioned below;
Emily.
(\TI) Edward Lucien, son of Butler Dun-
bar, was born .\i)ril 23, 18 15, in Springfield,
Pennsylvania, ."shortly after his birth he was
brought by his ])arents to their native state,
Connecticut, where he grew up. In early life
he became engaged in the manufacture of
clock springs and clock trinuuings in P.ristol,
Connecticut, and later was connected with
Wallace liarnes in the mamifacture of hoop-
skirt and crinoline steels. He was a man of
strict integrity, and of great public spirit and
enterprise. In 1858 he erected a town hall
for Bristol, which for many years went by
the name of Crinoline Hall. Through his in-
fluence, in 1853, a haml fire-engine was se-
curctl for the town, and from tliis as a be-
ginning the present fire department has been
developed. In iKjIitics he was a I ' id
rcpre^eutell Bristol in the lowei
general assembly in 1862. He ...^...it
7, 1872, much honored and resjicctcd by his
fellow citizens. He married. .May 3, 1840,
Julia, iKirn in Farmington, ilaughter of Joel
and Lucinda Warner, .^he died Mav 2<j. 1886.
Children: i. Winthup \\ an ' ' . bruary
25, 1841 ; married, .\i.iy 3, 1 .\ima
\\ heeler, born June 3, 1 , an: i.
Charles l-'dward, born November 18. 1865,
married. July 2, i88q, Elizabeth Bulklcy Nott,
born August 29, i8'J9. died May Kj. 1908;
one son. Winthup \Villiam, liorn June 26,
1891; ii. .Mice Mav. Iwrii .\pril 7 •'^''^ •••nr-
ried. May 3, 1888, Carl Xirgil :n
November jt^, 1803; children: icc
Frances, l)orn July 14, 1889, married. 1 >ectm-
ber 25, 1909, Lea W. Rockwell; b. .Anna Dun-
bar, lK>rn June it, 1893; c. Carl Hull, born
September 25. 1900; iii. Beatrice Estclle. born
June 22, 1874, died ,^ugust 29. 1874. 2. Ed-
ward Butler, iwrn .November i, 1842, see for-
ward. 3. William .Augustus, born Ajjril 5,
1844; married. October 4. i8'i5, Josic H<^ikcr
Sharpless. born January 9, 1845; children:
i. Nettie Louise, lK)rn .August i(>, i86<). mar-
ried, .August 20, 1885, Dennis .Andrew Ijjjson ;
children: a. Elizabeth. Imrn .April 14. 1887;
b. Doris Add, July 13, 1894: ii. Edward
Louis, lx)rn November i, 1869. married, Oc-
tober 21, 1896, Josephine .Adelaid Case, liorn
June II, 1874: children: a. Jf)seph Edwanl,
born April 1, 1898: b. .Adelaid Case, liorn July
25, 1902; iii. William Howard. Inirn May 23,
1875, marrie<I, June 19, 1901, Nellie .Adams;
one son, William .Adams, born .Ai)ril 30, 1907.
4. Alice Augusta. l>orn March 2S. 1847; mar-
ried, May 3. 1865. Warren W. Thnrpc, born
November 19, 1839; children: i. Eva May,
born November 2, 18(19, married October 19,
1898, George W. Birgc, born June 8, 1870,
died September 22, 1901 ; one daughter,
Rachael. born September 8, 1899; ii. Helen
Dunbar, bom June 9. 1876, married, Octo-
ber 28. i<K>3. .\rtliur (i. Beach, liorn .\ugust i,
1870: children: a. .Arthur (i., Jr.. bom De-
cember 19. 1904; b. Alice, Ixirn March 29,
1907. 3. Julia Lucinda. born .April 18, 1849;
married. July 3, 1878, Lcverett ,A. Sanford,
born October 17, 1837. 6. Eva Louise, Ixim
November 4. 1852: married, October 22. 1873,
George W. Mitchell, iK^rn November 1. 1849.
(\Tin Edward Butler, son of Edward Lu-
cien Dunbar, was Ixjrn in Bristol, Connecti-
cut. November i, 1842. He attended the pub-
lic scho<iIs of the town and completed a course
790
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at the W'illiston Seminary at Easthampton,
Massachusetts. At the age of eighteen years
he went to Xew York and became associated
with the late WilHam F. Tompkins in the
management of the New York office of the
"crinohne" or hoop-skirt business of Dunbar
& Barnes, then an extensive Bristol industry.
Two years later, on the retirement of Mr.
Tompkins, Mr. Dunbar succeeded to the sole
management of the office, and conducted it
with great success for about three years, when
the fashion for hoop skirts had materially sub-
sided and the New York office was given up.
Returning to Bristol in 1865, Mr. Dunbar en-
tered the employ of his father who had that
year established the small spring factory at the
present location of Dunbar Brothers. In 1872
the elder Mr. Dunbar died and the following
year a partnership was formed between the
iDrothers, Edward B., William A. and Win-
throp W., for carrying on the business under
the firm name of Dunbar Brothers. The
partnership continued until i8go, when, be-
cause of ill health, William A. Dunbar sold
out his interest to his brothers and retired
from the firm. The business thrived under
the management of the new firm and became
one of the leading manufacturing houses of
the town. The original factory building is
still in use and one of the landmarks of the
town. The firm turned out from five thou-
sand to eight thousand clock springs daily,
but later they devoted their attention to the
production of small springs only. Since the
death of the elder Dunbar, and by his express
wish, the old bell is tolled every night of the
year ninety-nine times at 9 o'clock. Just
previous to the death of Edward B. Dunbar
the firm of Dunbar Brothers was incorpor-
ated with E. G. Dunbar as a member of it.
Edward B. was the largest stockholder and
president of the firm.
Mr. Dunbar's life was an active one, and
he devoted much time, energy and thought
to worthy jjublic enterprises and institutions.
He served his town two terms as representa-
tive in the general assembly ; in 1869, when
but twenty-seven years old, and again in 1881.
He served the old Fourth senatorial district
in the upper branch of the general assembly
in 1885 and was re-elected in 1887. While
in the senate he was an earnest advocate of
the weekly payment bill for workmen, and
of the child labor law, for both of which he
made forcible and eloquent speeches. Subse-
quently he was urged to accept a nomination
for congress, but declined. For thirty years
he was the Democratic registrar of voters
in the first district of the town and borough.
He was one of the active promoters of the
project which provided Bristol with a high
school and was chairman of the high school
committee from its establishment until four
years previous to his death, when he resigned,
owing to the press of other duties. It was
under his direction the present sightly build-
ing was constructed. His interest was ever
intense for maintaining high standards at the
school, giving it a standing and efficiency be-
yond that of similar schools in towns the size
of Bristol. For a number of years he was a
member of the board of school visitors, and
for more than a c|uarter of a century was a
member of the district committee of the South
Side school. He was the executive head of
the Bristol fire department from 1871, the
date of the establishment of the board of fire
commissioners. He was deeply interested in
the progress of the department and within
his administration witnessed its growth from
the old hand engine equipment to its present
modern apparatus. In 1891. when the Free
Public Library was suggested as a solution
of the question of what should be done with
the library of the then defunct Young Men's
Christian Association, Mr. Dunbar was very
active in behalf of the movement for the town
institution. He was chosen president of the
board of library directors, which position he
held to the time of his death. He was a mem-
ber of the special committee of the board ap-
pointed to solicit for the building fund, and
during the absence of Mr. Ingraham from the
town acted temporarily as a member of the
building" committee.
Mr. Dunbar was also active in the interests
of the movement for the establishment of the
Bristol National Bank : from the first was a
director in the institution and for a number
of years was its vice-president. In 1905, fol-
lowing the death of President Charles S.
Treadway, Mr. Dunbar was chosen his suc-
cessor and filled that office with characteristic
faithfulness and ability to the last days of his
illness. He was also a director and vice-presi-
dent of the Bristol Savings Bank since 1889.
He was president of the Bristol Board of
Trade. He was president of the Young Men's
Christian Association, being particularly in-
terested in the boy's branch. He united with
the First Congregational Church, July 7, 1867,
and from October 11, 1901, until his death
was a faithful deacon of the same. He was
a member of the Bristol Business Men's As-
sociation ; Reliance Council, No. 753, Royal
Arcanum ; and the Central Congregational
Club. Every position held by Mr. Dunbar
was regarded by him as a channel for service
in the community and to his fellows. Faith-
fulness, ability and self-sacrifice characterized
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his a<liiiini-tr;iiiiins throiiyhont lii-i lunj^ career
of iiscl'iilne>>.
Mr. Dunbar inarrieil, December j.?. 1X75,
Alice Eliza, burn July 8. 1.S54. dau^jhtcr of
Watson and Adeliza .Mun>on (Case) tiid-
dings (see Liidilinj^s \II). Children: i.
Mamie Eva, born December 17. 1X77, died
Jaiuiary 18, 1881. 2. Marguerite, born June
28, 1880; married. June 22. 1904, the Kev.
Ciiarlcs Norman Shejiard. of l!ri>tol. Connec-
ticut, professor of Hebrew at tiie General
Theological Seminary, New ^'ork City; now
resides in New York; chil<lren:_ i. Katberine,
June 4. 1905: ii. Alice Emma. June 30. i«)o');
iii. Martjncrite Dunbar, ( )ctober 23. ir;o8. 3.
Edward (iiddin,L;s, born May 20, i88q; edu-
cated in the Bristol ])id)lic schools and Hctts
Academy. Stamford, Connecticut ;" is now in
the factory of The Dunbar Ilmthers Company,
and vice-[)rcsident of the company.
Mr. Dunbar died at his htMiie on South
street, I'.ristnl. May y, \f)Oj. I^rayers were
said at the home by the Rev. Dr. Calvin B.
Mofxly. and the public services were held at
the First Con};;re,Lcational Church, which was
filled to its capacity, the tire commissioners,
com]ianies of tireiucn and members of Reli-
ance Council attcndini; in a body. The Bris-
tol National liank, the Bristol Savings Bank,
and the South Side school committee were
also re])resented by delegations. The follow-
ing are extracts from the eulogy of the Rev.
Dr. Moody: "In Imsiness life .Mr. Dunbar
was sagacious, cautious, prudent, honest, the
best type of a reliable, successful business
man. I Ic was resrected for his integrity and
honor by all of those who were ever in his
employ. There are men in the factory of the
Dunbar Brothers who have been ein|)loyed
there for thirty or forty years, and to-day they
feel that tluy have lost one of their best and
tniest friends. .As a public citizen he was
broad-minded and j)ublic-Ni>irited. and he took
a deep interest in everything that lende<l to
the highest welfare of the comuumity and
state. He was a noble, large-hearted, gener-
ous, patriotic, pbil.'intbropic citizen, lie was a
lcvcl-lica<lcd. warm-liearted. benevolent Chris-
tian geutleuian. Deacon Dunbar was a man
of faith and prayer. He knew Jesus Christ
as his personal Savior ani! I-Vicnd ; he could
say with the apostle Paul. "I know whom I
have believed." He had that ho|)e which is
'an anchor of the soul, both sure and stead-
fast, and which entereth into that within the
veil.' " The interment was in West cemetery.
.\t a special mcetinsf of the Board of Libra-
ry Directors of the Town of Bristol, the fol-
lowing minute was adoi)tcd. and a copv or-
.liT,-.|' In 1„. ..•i,t t.. Mri Dniil.ir ■
" I Ills Ito.inl licrctiy rii'THs n- ' r
row .iml sense ol los> by the death
orabic l^ilw-irct II. Dunbar, wliicli ■ /
gdi. UXJ-. Ulu-n in ( >cli>brr. iN^i. 11. ■ i wii
voted to establish a free public library. Mr. Dun-
bar w.T- tlir tT't-Tinmc! mrniber "f »hr board of
dircit At the
lirst I r igih,
i«<ji. , I rfiid
lie Ill-Ill th.il "111. 1- . ..nlmu. i;
\'cry tfw indeed ha\c been 1
liiianl at which he was nut 1
inj;, until, during si.\ niontlis |i.i~i. hl^ ii::
m.idc It inipiissiblc for him tn alteiid lli.
spirit which made him .ilwriy- nrti- r in •
purl of every (j;'""' can ■ 1
made him con^tant in ;
public duty, the lo\e I'l
which always charactcri/i ■! htm. liir iinnir-.d
rcKjanl for him and conlidcncc in him which
made his su|)piirt of any cause most inlhunii.-il.
combined to make his service on thi-
most valuable to the Library and to tli.
and the hearty and cordial spirit of gooil :
ship, which so endeared him to every da-- "I
the community, made the association with him
always a pleasure to his fellow members, and
causes a marked sense of our personal loss in
his death." .\ttest, Epaphroditus F'eck, Secretary
of the Hoard.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Bristol National Bank, held Monday, May
13, 1907, it was voted: That the following
minute be entered upon the records, in mem-
ory of the late Hon. Edward B. Dunbar, and
that a copy of this minute be transmitted to
his family:
Edward I'.utlcr Dunbar. President of the Bris-
tol National liank, died after a lingering illness,
'I'liursday. May 0. 190-. Stricken down in the
full strciiRth of his vigorous manhood, with the
prospect of many useful years before him, within
a twelvemonth, he has passed to his rest. His
associates in the Board of Directors desire to
enter upon the records their appreciation of his
valuable services, and their deep regard and af-
fection for the man himself, lie has been a mem-
ber of this board since the organization of the
bank in 1875. and its President since I'W.s. The
growth and progress of the institution arc an
elo(|uent tribute to the sound j"' •■•■"• -■••.I
executive ability of the original h. '1
he was a member. .As a man. he i
dence of all who knew him. He u..- ..,,,...,, m
all his dealings, and knew no way but the
straight path. He typified a Christian gcnllc-
ni.in in the world of business, and through the
seven days of the week. His death is a great
misfortune to our institution, and we desire to
express mir deep sorrow, and to voice our heart-
felt appreciation of his cordial relations with us
in our business and personal associations, of his
wise and kindly counsel, and his lasting pride in.
and loyally to. the institution. Attest, M. L.
Tiflfany, Cashier.
The resolutions of the Board of Fire Com-
missioners :
Whereas. In the Providence of God. the long
and useful activities of Hon R B. Dunbar in the
upbuilding of his native town, have ceased, and
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Whereas, The deceased served continuously as
chairman of this board since its organization, be
it therefore
Resolved, That in the removal of Hon. E. B.
Dunbar from our councils and from the com-
munity, we realize the loss to ourselves and to
the people of the town, of a faithful, efficient,
judicious and loyal public servant, of an es-
teemed gentleman and friend, a man noble in
Christian character, honorable in all places, and
high-minded in action whether in this cTr other
■capacities. Be it further
Resolved, That we tender to the members of
his family the sincere sympathy of the members
of this board, and that these resolutions be
spread upon our minutes and published in The
Bristol Press. George H. Hall, C. H. Deming,
C. H. Blakesley, W. H. Carpenter, J. R. Holley,
Bristol, Conn., May 14. 1907.
The resolutions of the Bristol Savings
Bank:
Whereas, Death has again invaded our Board
of Directors and taken from us Mr. Dunbar, our
first vice-president and dear friend, who has long
been identified with this bank, a man wise in
counsel, of sound judgment and business ability,
of sterling integrity and Christian character, a
friend to all, beloved and respected by all, one
who will long be remembered and missed by us,
and in whose death we realize a very great loss
to this bank, as also to this community.
Resolved. That as Directors of this Savings
Bank we place upon its records this token of our
appreciation of his personal worth and of his
services to this bank, and tender to his family
our sincere sympathy. .Attest, Miles Lewis Peck,
Secretary.
(The Giddings Line).
The Giddings family, of which Mrs. Dun-
bar is a representative, is of remote Scottish
ancestry, and of New England descent since
1635.
The name of Giddings, according to
some authors, was derived from Gideon, the
Hebrew for "brave soldier." From Gideon
also is derived Giddy, Giddies, Gibbon, Geddes.
That this name is an ancient one in England
can be proven from various sources, but at
what period it first appeared the researches
thus far do not enable us to state. The name
was spelled in different ways by different
branches of the family, Giddings and Ged-
dings are English, Geddes is Scottish, and Git-
tings is Welsh, and by many they are sup-
posed to belong to the same family. There
are several places in Scotland called Geddes,
as Geddes Hill, Geddeston, Geddeswell. Ac-
cording to the statistical account of Scotland,
the family of Geddes of Rachan, in Peeble-
shire, have possessed that estate for thirteen
hundred years. "The Manor of Geddings,"
which lies partly within the two parishes of
Boxbourne and Great Amwell, probably de-
rived its name from the family of Geddings,
for in 1334 it was in the possession of Ed-
mund Geddings, to whom the king granted
the right of free warren. There is a town
called Little Giddings, situated on the western
border of Huntingdon county, England, and
also a parish of that name in Suffolk county.
Amongst the various families of this name ■
there are various coats-of-arms ; a coat-of-
arms of the Giddings family is now in pos-
session of Mrs. Robert B. Denney, of Boston,
Alassachusetts, a descendant of Daniel Gid-
dings, who procured it of a painter of her-
aldry in the early part of this century. On
the will of Lieutenant John Giddings there
was a crest with a griffin rampant, supposed
to be the crest of Collins, as the Collins and
Giddings families interinarried. Lieutenant
John used a seal with that crest upon it to
stamp legal documents.
(I) From what particular branch of the
Giddings family in England, or who were the
immediate ancestors of George Giddings, the
first of the name here, we are unable to say.
There is a tradition in the family that there
were three brothers who emigrated to this
country in the early years, one settling at Ips-
wich, one at Cape Cod, and one at Halifax,
Nova Scotia. The fact is well authenticated
that George Giddings, aged twenty-five, and
his wife, Jane (Tuttle) Giddings, aged twen-
ty, came from England in 1635, and settled in
the town of Ipswich, about twenty-five miles
from Boston, Massachusetts, with their three
servants. They are said to have had as com-
panion on their voyage Sir Henry \^ane,
fourth governor of Massachusetts, who in
1662 suffered martyrdom for his zeal in the
cause of liberty and religion. George Gid-
dings brought with him a letter of recom-
mendation from the rector, or minister, of St.
Albans, Hertfordshire. George Giddings was
born in 1608, died June i, 1676. He was one
of Major Denison's subscribers in 1640, a
commoner in 1641, one of the twenty sworn
freeholders who paid the highest rates out
of two hundred and thirty in 1664, deputy to
the general court in 1641-54-55-59-61-63-
64-68-72-75, selectman from 1661 to 1675, and
for a long time a ruling elder of the first
church. The inventory of his estate, June 19,
1676, exhibited a total value of ii,02i, 12s.,
of which one hundred and fifty-two acres of
land with six acres of marsh, at Plumb Island,
was appraised at £772. His widow died
March, 1680. Children of George and Jane
Giddings: Thomas, born 1638, married (first)
Mary Goodhue, (second) Elizabeth ;
John, see forward; James, born 1641, mar-
ried Elizabeth Andrews : Samuel, born 1645,
married (first) Hannah Martin, (second)
Elizabeth : Joseph Collins, married
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Susaniiali Kiiulyt- ; >arali ; Mary, married
Samuel I'carce; Ge<>ri;c.
(II) John, son of George and Jane (Tutllc)
Giddings, was born 1639, died March 3, 1691.
He had a commonage granted him in 1667;
was a commoner in 1678; a lieutenant of mili-
tia; and was also a deputy to the general
court in 1683-84-85. The inventory of his
estate, rendered February jo. ifx/i, amount-
ing to £269 15s. lod., was distributed March
29, 1692. He married Sarah , who
married (second) Henry Hcrrick, of Beverly,
and she died in Gloucester. Children : George,
born 1664, married (first) .Mary Skamp,
(second) Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins: Elizabeth,
married (first) Dccemlier Kj, 1685, Mark
Haskell, (second) John Dennison. of Ips-
wich: Jane, married, November 26, 1691. Jo-
seph Haradine: Sarah, born 1672, married
John Haraden. died .November 11, 1724, they
had several children: John, born i(>75; Job,
born 1677, died February 27, 1708, married
Sarah .Andrews, children : Job, Sarah ami
John: Solomon, born 1679, married .Margery
Goodhue: Joshua, l)orn 1681, probably was
lost at sea in 17 16, married .Abigail ,
children : .Abigail. Jacob, and three others
who died young : Thomas, see forward ; Mary,
born i(>86. married Benjamin York.
(HI) Thomas, son of John and Sarah
Giddinijs. was born in Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, 1683. He removed to Gloucester, and
purchased of r.cnjaniin Lufkin, in 17 10. a
house which he sold May 22, 1721, and went
to Lyme, Connecticut, with his family about
1722-23, where he purchased land nearly every
year for several years : he settled near Heaver
brook. In 1708 he married Sarah lUitler.
Children: Job, married Sarah Rathbone: Jo-
seph, born 1714. married (first) Eunice .\n-
drus: (second) Elizabeth Ilungerford: John,
marricil Su-annah Tozor: Joslnia, see for-
ward : Thomas, born 1723, married Marv
Coult.
(I\') Joshua, son of Thomas and Sarah
(Butler) Ciiddings. was liorn 1710. died Feb-
ruary 4. 1S07. He probably removed from
Lyme, Connecticut, anrl settled in Hartland,
about 1723. The last deed found on the
Lyme records concerning him is to Ensign
Jasper in 1735, consideration £1.500. The fol-
lowing is also recorded Jime 5, 1746: "Joshua
Giddings ear-mark, for all sorts of creatures,
is a swallow-tail in the left, or a cros« on
right ear. with a lialf-penny on each side of
same." It is said that he went to Hartland
when quite a young man, and put up a log
house in the southwestern part of the town,
sleeping meanwhile on a bed of leaves. The
^■"■•ndation of the house and a chimnev still
remain, and a large tree is growing in the
cellar. The records show that he was for
many years one of t!v i- ■ i- ■ men of the
town, holding office : year. He
was a<lniitted to the ' nal church,
February 5, 1769. He luanicd Jane Reed,
who died .\]>ril 11, 1803, aged M-vcnty-nine
years. Children: 1. Elisha, ni.i
22, I77<), Susannah Perkins, wlv
3ry 7, 1777. aged twenty- 1'."'
same year, aged thirty-one.
forward. 3. John, born .\
married .Ascha Palmer. 4. I
marricfl (first) Submit Jon.
beth Pease. 5. Sarah, mat
1784, .Angus McLv>ud, and
who married, .August 31, n
man, of Hartland. and had ciiildren ;
Abigail. Sarah, Jane, William and .\n'
6. Deljorah. married, October 27, I7'>S, Jnii:
diah Bushncll, of Hartland. 7. Jane. <iicd
March 11. 1777, aged fifteen. S ' ' • -:i
1760: married Naomi Hale. 9.
ried. September 2«'), 1789, Mosi ■
of Hartland. 10. Ruth, married, November
18, 1770, Jonathan Couch, of Simsbury ; in
October, 1775, was a widow with three chil-
dren : Jonathan, Ruth and Delilah.
(V) Benjamin, son of Josln' • —i 'vie
(Reed) Giddings. was Iwrn at L
ticut. 1753. died in Hartlaml. ' i.
1830. whither he was brought in iniauvi, by
his parents. He was a prominent man in
town atTairs: was a soldier in the re\ '
during the extreme cold winter of 1
In June. 1781. at a town meeting, i-
appointed "a committee to hire all the sol-
diers for the army, and bring on the men
that counted for the town of Hartland. and
had not joined." Neither Mr. ("lid. lings nor
his wife were members of any church, but
were respected for their inilustry. intelligence
and strict morality. They were careful to
train their children to fear God. honor their
parents, and found pleasure in i)romoting the
welfare ni .ithcrs. He married .Afiah Holcomb.
who died 1830. aged seventy-seven. Chil-
dren: I. .Almon. married Lota Miller: settled
in Michigan. 2. Salmon. Ix>rn March 2. 1782;
married .Almira Collins. 3. Zcriuah. l)orn
1784; married. .August 31, 1807, Jonathan
luttle. of Barkhamsted. Conncctirnt; in t8io
they removed to Ohio a: ' ' ' -ic
hundred acres of lan<l in W : _^
there: he was a justice of :! . ;.:.-
one years, county commissioner twelve years,
representative in legislature one year ; he died
June, 1864. and she died May 3, 1871. 4.
Julia, born 1791 : married Ezra M.ick. 5.
Lorrain. born February 12, 1789. died .April
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30, 1858; married Desdemona Cowdry. 6.
Harriet, born 1795 ; married William H. Tis-
dale ; died December 10, 1831, leaving a son.
7. Benjamin, see forward. 8. Affie, married,
Ma_v 30, 1820, Dr. Josiah Banning; she died
September 28, 1832, aged thirty-four; he mar-
ried (second) Edith Cowdry, and died 1848.
9. Lowly. 10. Harriet, married a Mr. Tisdale.
(\'T) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (i)
and Afiah (Holcombj Giddings, was born in
Hartland, Connecticut, January 12, 1801, died
February 20, 1874. He resided in Hartland
all his life ; he was a very prominent man, a
merchant and postmaster many years, was
representative to the legislature, selectman,
justice of the peace, and ,^ commissioner of
superior court for Hartford county until age
disqualified him. He married Amoret, born
February 8, 1804, died October 26,' 1881,
daughter of Rev. Asa Bushnell, of Hartland.
Children: i. Philo B., born January 25, 1823,
died in Montrose, Virginia, December 6, 1857.
2. Fidelia H., born May 19, 1824; married,
November. 1842, Henry J. Gates, of Hart-
land. 3. Milo J., born April 2, 1827, died at
McPherson, Kansas, May 8, 1900 ; married,
July 4, 1849, Eugenia P. Miller. 4. Watson
M., born April 4, 1830, see forward. 5. Al-
mira, born November 30. 1831 ; married, Sep-
tember 27, 1858, Hoyt M. Hayes, of Bark-
hamsted. 6. Mary E., born October 5, 1833 ;
married, February 8. 1855, Nelson D. San-
ford, of Hartland ; died at New Flaven, April
10, 1871. 7. Eliza A., born April 14, 1836;
married. July 3, i860. Cyrus Cook, of Lex-
ington, Ohio ; she died September 8, 1877, at
Albia, Iowa; Almena A., born April 14, 1838,
died November 13, 1891 ; married, July 23,
1878, Ralph FI. Park. 9. Salmon B., born
July 14, 1847; married. May 17, 1870, Aurelia
M. Emmons, born 1850, died September, 1891.
(\'II) \\'atson, son of Benjamin (2) and
Amoret (Bushnell) Giddings, was born in
Flartland, Connecticut, April 4, 1830, died
March 22, 1905. He attended the common
schools of East Hartland until seventeen years
of age, after which he worked for five years
with his brother-in-law, Henry J. Gates, in
East Hartland. He was a carriage maker
and blacksmith by trade, and conducted a
blacksmith shop in Barkhamsted, Connecticut,
for ten years. He then went to New Hart-
ford, and worked one year for R. H. Wheeler,
later forming a partnership under the firm
style of Wheeler & Giddings. A year subse-
quently he purchased Mr. Wheeler's interest,
and carried on the business alone about two
years, at the expiration of whicl: time he dis-
posed of the plant to Henry M. Gates, and
purchased the Walter Stickney shop in \\'in-
sted, which he conducted about eighteen
months, and then sold to the Winsted Car-
riage Company, with which he invested all
his capital. About six months later this com-
pany failed, financially ruining ;Mr. Gidtlings,
who then went to Lewis, Iowa, where he
worked at his trade for a year and a half, at
the end of that time returning to Connecticut
and purchasing a shop in Terryville, which
he conducted three years and then sold. In
1874 he removed to Bristol; he opened a
small carriage repair shop on the corner of
North Main and Center streets, which he soon
converted into the most commodious and best-
equipped carriage factory in the town, em-
ploying from five to fifteen men, according to
his volume of business. In June, 1886, he
admitted as a partner his son, Frederick Wat-
son, the firm style being W'atson Giddings &
Son. Watson Giddings retired from business
several years prior to his death, the business
being conducted by his son. In politics Mr.
Giddings was always a Republican until the
formation of the Prohibition party, when he
united therewith and was an active worker in
its ranks. In 1861 he was elected by the
Republicans a member of the state legislature
from Barkhamsted, served one term, and also
served one term on the board of selectmen
of the same town. He was a member of the
board of burgesses, serving two terms, and
was chairman of the sewer committee of the
town. He was president of the West Ceme-
tery Association, was a trustee of the Pros-
pect Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he
had long been a prominent member, was made
a member in 1878 of Franklin Lodge, No.
56, Free and Accepted Alasons, in which he
served as treasurer from the time he joined
until his. death, and he and his wife were
members of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Mr. Giddings was a man of sterling character
and strict integrity, faithful and conscientious-
in the performance of every duty devolving
upon him, and won and retained the confi-
dence and esteem of all with whom he was.
brought in contact.
Mr. Giddings married (second) September
12, 1892, Emma S., born October 4, 1843,,
daughter of Amos Loomis, of Norwich, Con-
necticut, who survived him. Children of first
marriage: i. Alice Eliza, born July 8, 1854;
married, December 23, 1875, Edward B. Dun-
bar (see Dunbar VIII). 2. Mary Addie, born
April 6, 1856; married. May 31, 1877, Sam-
uel D. Newel, born 1847 ; four children, of
whom only one, Alice Mae, survives ; Alice
Mae, born February 18, 1880, married, Octo-
ber 22, 1902, Charles Dudley White ; one son,
Newell Dudley, born January 6, 1904. 3.
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Freilerick W'atxm, horn March 29, il<('o;
married, Jiiiii- 5. \H<)0, Cora M., liorn ncccin-
bcr J5, iS(*j. (Iaii),'litcr of llarvilla |. llarl.
of liristol: chil<lri.-n : \\at>on Hart, liorn June
24, 1^),^, and Snsii'. July i>). i>^)~. 4. Charles
Saiiniel, l)orn .\iiL^ii>t 4, lX(>2, died l)cicnil)er
19, iS.S_'. 5 ant! '>. Twins, who bolli died in
infancy.
In the deatii <>f Watson Giildings the com-
munity e.\]ierienced the loss of one of its niost
valuable citizens. The funeral was held from
his late home and was larfjely attended.
Franklin Ijulye, I-ree and .Accepted .\Ia>ons,
anil Ueli;incc Council, Koyal .\rcanuni. were
present in a body. A delegation fnjm Bris-
tol (iran)j;e was also present, and the em-
ployees of Giddings carriage shop attended in
a body. The Rev. .\rtlnir II. Cioodenough,
D.l)., pastor of Prospect Methodist Episcopal
Church, otViciated and sjKjke of the consistent
Christian character of the deceased. .\ <|uar-
tette rcndereil the following selections: '".Some
Time We'll Understand" and "One Sweetly
Solemn Thought". Interment was in West
cemetery, IVanklin Lodge conducting the
burial service.
(The C.1SC Line).
(I) John Case, founder of the American
branch of the Case family, was a native of
England, and emigrated to .America in the
early settlement of the colonies, coiuing to
Windsor from tlie old family home at .Xyles-
ham, England, where many of them now re-
side. They were a noted family as far back
as the time of Oliver Cromwell, and accu-
mulated fortunes by furnishing leather for
his army, being tanners and farmers. John
Case remained in Windsor imtil the spring of
l6<K), when he removetl to Simsbury, and
settled at Weatogue. He was elected the tirst
constable of Simsbury, October 14, iWk), and
al)out i(>72 represented the town at the gen-
eral court or assembly. 1 le w as a landowner
and farmer, ami a prominent citizen. He
married (first) Sarah, daughter of William
Spencer, of Hartford. She died November .^
1691. He married (second) Elizabeth
(Mofire) Loomis. lx>rn at Windsor, if\?8, died
July 23, 1728, daughter of John Moore, of
Windsor, and wi(li>\\ of Xathaniel Loomis, of
Windsor, lie died in Simsbury. I'ebruary Ji.
1703-04. and was buried there. Children of
first marriage: i. Elizabeth, born K152. died
171S: married (first) Joseph Lewis; (sec-
ond) John Tuller. 2. Mary, horn June 22,
\fifro. died 1725: married (first) William .\1-
dcrman : (secoml) James Ilillyer. 3. John,
born November 3, ifi<)2. died 1733: married
(first) .MaryOlcott: (seconil) Sarah Hol-
comb. 4. William, born June 5. i'i<>5: mar-
rie<l Elizabeth Holcomb. 5. Sannicl, Ixmi
June I. i(rf>7, died 1725; married (first) Mary
Westover ; ( second ) Elizabeth ( Owen I
Thrall, d. Kichartl. sec forwar<l. 7. Itarthol-
omew, iMirn in Octolier, 1670, <lie<l 1725; mar-
ried Mary Humphrey. S. Joseph. l>orn .\pril
6, 1674, dieil August II, i74><; marrieil .\nna
Eno. 9. Sarah, l)orn .\ugust 14. il>~H, died
1704: married Joseph I'helps Jr., of Wind-
sor.
(II) Captain Richard, .son of John ami
Sarah (Spencer) Ca.se. was born .\ugnst 2j,
li**), died in I74'>. He marrieil, in .\ugust.
1701, .Amy, daughter ot Philip Ueed, of ton-
cord, .Massachusetts. His sons were: Rich-
ard, see forward. Timothy and Eilward. He
located at Terrys Plains at an early date.
( HI ) Sergeant Richard (2). son of Captain
Richard ( i ) and .Amy ( Reed ) Case, was Uirn
at Terry's Plains in 1710. dieil at West .Sims-
bury in I7'>9. .Alxiul 1737 he went to West
Simsbury, a part of Canton, and settled on
what is known as East Hill, where he spent
the remainder of his life, engaged in agri-
culture. He married Mercy Holcomb. i>f
Simsbury. born in 1712. tlicd in West Sims-
bury, 1780. Children: i. Richard, lx>rn in
1734; marrieil Ruth Case. 2. Joab. Iwrn 1735,
died 1758. 3. -Sylvanus. Ixtrn 1737. died 1817;
married (first) Caroline Humphrey: (sec-
ond) Hei)zihah lliunphrey. 4. Simeon, see
forward. 5. Eli. born 1741 ; married Athil-
dred Curtis. (>. Uriah, Ixirn 1743, died 1826;
married ( first ) Susannah I^wrence : ( sec-
ond ) Eunice Hill. 7. Edward. Ixjrn 1748,
died 1798: married Teruah Lawrence. 8.
Mercy, born 1752, died i8i8; married .\bram
Moses. 9. Naomi, born 1755. died 1850; mar-
ried I-'sther IJrown. The son .Sylvanus was
reputed to have been the first English child
born within the limits of West .Simsbury.
( I\ ) Simeon, son of Sergeant Richard (2)
and Mercy ( Holcomb ) Case, was Iwrn in
Simsbuiy. I73<). died 1823. His youth was
mainly spent in West Simsbury. and in young
manhood he went to what is now West Gran-
by. which became his permanent residence, and
there he engaged in farming. 1 le married
.Mary, born 1730. died 1834, daughter of .\mos
and Mary (Hi>lcomb) Case. ' Children: 1.
Simeon, born 1759. died 1819: married Phoebe
I'.urr. 2. Titus, see forward. 3. Mary. Ikkh
1771, died 1821. 4. Obed. born 1765. <iied
1849: married Rachel Emmons. 3. Elijihalet,
born 1770. died 1847: married Rachel Case.
6. .Ashbel. hnm IJ(M. liied 181(1: niarried Polly
brazier. 7. .Alexander, born 1774. <lied 1824;
marrieil !Nlindwell Case. 8. Irancis. Iwrn
1777. died 1843: married Jemima Case. 9.
Robert. Ixirn 1780: marrieil Clarissa Case.
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lo. Peter, ii. Elizabeth, married Reuben
Rnssel.
(V) Titus, son of Simeon and Mary (Case)
"Case, was born 1764, died April 3, 1816. He
married, March 12, 1792, Amy Reed. Chil-
dien: Loviah, born October 5, 1792; Titus,
August I, 1796; Jeremiah, July 18, 1798;
Owen, see forward; Neri, December i, 1803;
Mahalath, February 20, 1806; Chloe, Febru-
ary 6, i8og; Amy Fannie, October 14, 181 1;
Nancy, August 20, 1816.
(VI) Owen, son of Titus and Amy (Reed)
Case, was born April 5, 1801, died May 16.
1877. He married, December 23, 1830, Laura
Munson, born July 14, 1808, died March 12,
1871. Children: Adeliza Munson, born Oc-
tober 4, 1833, married, January 6, 1853, Wat-
son Giddings (see Giddings VII) ; Samuel
Munson, born November 24, 1834, died June
6, 1841 ; Adelaide Laura, born April 10. 1842,
died December i, 1877, married, October 16,
1867, Joel Tififany Case; Owen Elliot, born
January 18, 1849, married, April 5, 1871,
Belle Lee.
Richard Knight, immigrant an-
KNIGHT cestor, was a carpenter by
trade and lived at Newport,
Rhode Island. He was keeper of the prison
in 1648-49 and general sergeant in 1648-49-
50"53"54"57'58- He was admitted a freeman
in 1655. In 1663 he bought lands in Nar-
ragansett, and in 1677 he and forty-seven
others were granted one hundred acres each
in a plantation to be called East Greenwich,
but never lived there. He died in 1680. He
married Sarah, daughter of James and J^Iary
Rogers. Children : John, Jonathan, David,
mentioned below.
(II) David, son of Richard Knight, lived at
East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and Norwich,
Connecticut. He was associated with his
brother Jolm in surveying and laying out
lands in Narragansett. He lived most of his
life at Norwich, where his children were re-
corded. He married, March 17, 1691, Sarah,
daughter of Stephen and Sarah Backus. He
died November 24, 1744. Children : Rachel,
born Novemby 14, 1691 ; Jonathan, July 2,
1698, mentioned below; Mary, April 2, 1700;
Hannah, January 30, 1702 ; Lurana, Febru-
ary I, 1704; Joseph, November 7, 1705; Ben-
jamin, August 14, 1707.
(HI) Jonathan, son of David Knight, was
born at Norwich, Connecticut, July 2, 1698,
and resided there. He died March 7, 1770.
He married. May 3, 1726, Abigail, born Oc-
tober 21, 1705. daughter of Daniel and Eliza-
beth (Lamb) Longbottom.
(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (i)
Knight, lived at Norwich. He had a son
Joshua, mentioned below.
• (V) Joshua, son of Jonathan (2) Knight,
was born September 23, 1746. He married,
July 10, 1770, soon afterward removed to
Chesterfield, Massachusetts, and built the first
house on the old Knight homestead. He died
there December 26, 1815, aged sixty-nine
years. His wife was born in Northampton,
December 28, 1748, died in Chesterfield, No-
vember 26, 1825. Children: i. Jonathan, born
October 17, 1772, in Chesterfield. 2. Esther,
October 16, 1773, died September 6, 1836.
3. Joshua, January 14, 1775, died in western
New York. 4. Erastus, November 18, 1776,
mentioned below. 5. Shubael, July 29, 1778,
in Chesterfield, died May 19, 1824 ; married
Hannah Rhodes. 6. Elizabeth, February 6,
1780, died at Shepherd's Flollow, Northamp-
ton, December 8, 1864. 7. Miriam, July 12,
1783, died September 28, 1835. 8. Seth, July
II, 1785, died August 18, 1793. 9. Zebina,
January 27, 1788, died at Keene, August 28,
1871 : married Philena Graves.
(VI) Erastus, son of Joshua Knight, was
born at Chesterfield, November 18. 1776, died
February 14, 1846. He married (first) April
6, 1802,' Polly Little, of Williamsburg, Mas-
sachusetts. She died May 10, 1808, aged
twenty-eight years, six months. He married
(second) November 30, 1809, Lucy Smith,
who died January 17, 1829, aged fifty-one
years. He married (third) May 28, 1829,
Theodosia Cushman, who died March 4, 1833,
aged forty-six. He married (fourth) Electa
Bullard, of Williamsburg. She lost her life
in the Williamsburg flood. May 16, 1874, aged
eighty years. He lived in Northampton and
Chesterfield, whither he moved in 1818. Chil-
dren: I. Fanny, born January 9, 1803, died
June 14, 1857 ; married Luke Wilder, of
Chesterfield ; removed to western New York ;
had seven children. 2. Harriet, born Novem-
ber 17, 1804, died the same day as her mother.
May 10, 1808. 3. William, born at North-
ampton, January 17, 1807 ; lived at Chester-
field from the age of eleven to twenty, then
at Williamsburg three years, in New Jersey
a year, in Greenfield three years, moved thence
to Michigan in the spring of 1834 with the
Smede family ; married, December 23, 1834,
Anna Smede, and celebrated his golden wed-
ding; his wife was born at Bolton, Warren
county. New York, September 14, 1810, died
at Adrian, Michigan, July 4, 1885. 4. Sam-
uel Swett, born September 6, 18 10, died at
Williamsburg, January 20, 1889. 5. Mary,
born at Northampton, August 10, 1812, died
September 25, 1813. 6. Jonathan Henry, born
December 5, 1814; settled in Worcester; mar-
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ried Pcrsis Goodwin, of Springticltl, wIid died
in 1847-48, leaving one son, Janus Ilcnry,
now president of the First National liank of
Hartford; Jonathan Mcnry married (second)
Harriet S. Alvord, of Martfunl. wlm dieil No-
veinl er, iS'ij: chililrcn : l\"rsi> I'rowning,
married Otis Redden, of Worcester, and Har-
riet Sophia, married Mr. W. I*". Hatch, of
Hartford: Jonathan Henry died March 27,
1862, at Worcester. 7. Merrick, iiorn Jan-
uary 15, 1817: mentioneil Ih.1<>w. 8. Martha,
born June 10. i8n), died at Worcester. Feh-
ruary 21. 1889. 9. Elizalx-th Sophia, born
October 12, 1821 ; married T. L. Whitney in
1^4^); children: Henry S.. of jjerkeley. Cali-
•lia: Mrs. Sarah >r. Meyers, of Bridgeton,
. Jersey: Mrs. Horace Sawin, of Califor-
\II I Rev. Merrick Knight, son of Eras-
Knight, was born at Northampton, Jan-
uary 15. 1817. died at West Hartford. Con-
necticut, .\ugust 10, 1896. He attended the
' lie schools, fitted for college at Munson
idemy and graduated from .\mher>t in the
> of 1846 and from the Hartford Theo-
:>al Seminary in 1849. His first pastorate
at the Congregational church in Chaplin,
iiecticut. where he remainerl two years,
ing the next si.K years he was pastor of
( "ongregational church at Hebron, Connec-
1. lie was then acting pastor of the church
... I'.road I'.rook for the years, and was after-
ward settled for five years as pastor of the
clnirch at Rocky Hill. Thence he went to the
•th Church at New Hartford, and after a
orate of five years accepted a call to the
church at East Hartland. where he served for
ten years. He preached also for short periods
at Torrington. StatTord and North Coventry.
During his last pastorate he represented the
town of Hartland in the general assembly of
the state. .-\t the close of this pastorate he
removed to West Hartford, and from 1890
until shortly before the time of his death was
occupied in supplying various pul])its in that
section. He was a faithful, zealous and tact-
ful minister, an able speaker and preacher, a
useful citizen. Of high purposes and exem-
plary character, he had a distinguished and
fruitful career in his chosen profession and
was universally loved by his ))eople. He inar-
ried. June. 183 1. .\bigail. daughter of Icha-
bod Ward (sec Ward family) and grand-
daughter of Joel and Elizabeth (Woodward)
Ward (see Ward \T). She was born Octo-
ber 20. 1822. died July 4. 1900. Children :
Dr. W. W.. born September 15, 1852: men-
tionc<I below: Rev. Edward H., of Spring-
field : Frank H., of New York.
(\TH) Dr. W. W. Knight, son of Rev.
Merrick Knight, was born at Chaplin, Con-
necticut. September 15, 1852. He attended
the public schools, and Williston Seminary at
Easthampton. Massachusetts, from which he
was graduated in the class of 1872. He
studied medicine at the medical school of the
New York University, from which he received
the degree of M.D. in 1876. He was an
interne at Charity Hospital, now the City
Hospital on Mlackwell's Island in i87(>-77.
Since then he has been engaged in general
practice in Hartford, Cotmecticut. He i^ a
member of the American Medical .\ssociaiion,
the Connecticut State Medical Society and the
Hartford Medical Society; of the Connecticut
Historical Society and of the Sons of the
Revolution. He is unmarried.
(The Woodward Line).
This surname is derived from wood and
ward, meaning "custos" or "custodian of the
wood," an officer of the forest whose charge
is to look after the woods and vert there; his
very name denotes his office ; he must pre-
sent all olTences within his charge at the
court of attachments, or swain-mote, to the
chief foresters or vcrderers; and if he see or
know any malefactors or if he shall find any
deer killed or hurt, he nuist acquaint a ver-
dcrer there and present the same at the next
court of the forest and by the law he must
not ealk with bow and arrows, but with a
forest bill or hatchet." ( Manwode. quoted in
Nelson's "I^w of Game.") The name I^
\\'odeward first appears in the IIi 'Is
in 1273. The family lived in e
and Upton, county P.uckinghau.. . ..^...iid.
The arms : Barry of six azure and argent
over all three hart's heads caboshcd or ; on a
chief of llie tlrird a wolf passant gules, be-
tween two anmdets sable. Crest: .-\ wolf's
head argent collared sable studded or between
an acorn branch and a branch of fern jiroper.
Similar arms, with a different crest, were
granted to a I'uckint;hamshire family in 1527:
also to families of the name in Gloucester and
Lon<lon, England. Nearly all the arms of
the Woodward family resemble each other.
(I) Richard Woodward, immigrant ances-
tor, was born in England in 1500. He sailed
in the ship "Elizabetli." of Ipswich. .April 30,
1633, with his wife Rose, aged fifty, and chil-
flren. George and John, aged thirteen. He
settled at \Vatertown. Massachusetts, and was
admitted a freeman Sciitcmber 2. 1633. He
was a miller ar ' ' '• : wind-mill located
in Boston, and r sold it in 1648.
His wife Rose 'cr 6. 1662. aged
eighty, an<l he mariit-d (second) (settlement
dated .\pril 18, 1663) .-\nn Gates, born 1603.
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widow of Stephen Gates, of Cambridge. In
1642 he had a homestall of twelve acres and
much other land. He bought, in 1648, of
Edward Holbrook, a mill in Boston and sold
it again in December, 1649, to William Aspin-
wall. He died February 16, 1664-65. His
widow died in Stow, February 5, 1682-8,^
(II) George, son of Richard Woodward,
was born in England in 1622, and came with
his parents in 1635 to New England. He
was admitted a freeman May 6, 1646, and
settled in Watertown, later in Brookline. He
was selectman of Watertown in 1674. He
married (first) Mary ; (second) Au-
gust 17, 1659, Elizabeth, daughter of Thom-
as Hammond, of Newton. He died May 31,
1676. His widow married (second) Samuel
Truesdale. Children of first wife: Mary,
born August 12, 1641 : Sarah, February 6,
1642-43: Amos: Rebecca, December 30, 1647;
John, March 28, 1649. mentioned below: Dan-
iel, Septem